AIS Founder Toolkit
Ideas, Programs, & Inspo
Problem areas
Concrete projects in AGI preparedness
Forethought — a catalog of high-impact projects to take on
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AI Safety & Resilience Founding Opportunities
Catalyze Impact — a longlist of founding ideas and RFPs across alignment, evals, biosecurity & governance
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Preparing for Launch
Institute for Progress — an anthology of concrete AI R&D projects to ship by 2030
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Bio Action Plan
A 5-year plan of record to defend against catastrophic biological threats
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The AI Infrastructure Security Shortlist
Neglected, high-impact AI security problems that need cybersecurity talent
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Key Problems in AI Infrastructure Security
A shortlist of high-stakes AI security problems with few experts
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Ways into AI safety
BlueDot Impact
Free online courses to learn AI safety
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AISafety.com
Directory of programs, jobs, and communities
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80,000 Hours job board
Curated roles working on AI safety and other top problems
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EA Global
Conferences for the effective altruism community
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BlueDot Context Week
4-day residential program to explore AI safety and find your highest-impact role
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Programs & incubators
Generator Residency
3-month launchpad for AI safety generalists in Berkeley (Kairos × Constellation)
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MATS — Founding & Field-Building
Funded track to launch a new AI safety initiative
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MATS Residency
6–24 month funded independent research ($155–285k/yr) in Berkeley, London, or DC
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Catalyze Impact
Incubator for new AI safety organizations
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BlueDot Incubator Week
5-day, all-expenses-paid SF accelerator with up to $100k in grants
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GovAI Entrepreneur-in-Residence
1-year salaried program with ~$150k seed funding to launch an AI governance org
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Surplus
3-month, $100k software incubator in SF for AI safety & epistemics startups
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Start an AI safety org
Why you should start (or join) an AI Safety Org
My slides from Edge Esmeralda 2026
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Org-founding talk (Jake Mendel)
Made for MATS founders, so not broadly applicable — but a signal of where Coefficient Giving is at
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AISafety.com: Founder toolkit
Incubators, fiscal sponsors, VCs, and practical tools
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AI Safety & Entrepreneurship
LessWrong wiki — writing from people who’ve started orgs
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The Anthropic IPO is coming. We aren’t ready for it.
EA Forum post on what the field needs to build now
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