Field builder · Funders · San Francisco, CA and London · Est. 2022
BlueDot Impact is a London- and San Francisco–based non-profit “talent accelerator” focused on strengthening the safety and biosecurity workforce. The organization runs free online AI safety and biosecurity courses, provides grantmaking to support career transitions and early projects, and convenes people through intensive in-person programs.
BlueDot frames its mission around a growing “mismatch” between how quickly frontier AI and biology capabilities are advancing and how fast the safety-and-security workforce is developing, and it describes its operating approach as building pipelines that move people from first engagement to impactful roles and, in some cases, to creating or joining new organizations.
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“There are something like two to three thousand people working full time on trying to make AI go well…
Biosecurity StrategyHow to Pandemic-Proof the World.
Can AI Help Humanity Make Better Decisions?Our experience running a weekend hackathon on AI tools for better decisions and coordination
What we’re building at BlueDotThe most important problems still need owners
Can you teach context?Inside Context Week, a four-day BlueDot experiment in helping people understand AI safety and decide how to contribute.
Act in BlueDot’s best interest: how we do expensesBlueDot’s expense policy is just 5 words. This is how and why it works.
How I facilitateEverything I do before, during, and after a discussion session
AI safety comms work that I would be excited to seeIdeas for creators, funders, and founders to grow AI safety comms.
Is the AGI strategy course right for you?3 questions to help you decide
We’ve given out $50,000 in rapid grants. Now we want to triple that.Bigger grants, broader scope, same quick decisions. Apply now.
Is the Frontier AI Governance course right for you?3 questions to help you decide.
Quitting FinTech for AI Safety — Milos BorenovicMilos is the Chief Product Officer and Parternships Lead at Lucid Computing
BlueDot’s co-founder Dewi Erwan published a strategy post describing BlueDot’s execution: courses and grantmaking live, first experimental in-person programs launched, and a process of securing a large San Francisco campus; the post also includes several operational strategy details and states that BlueDot has raised $71M so far (as of the post).
Moving our courses into the BlueDot Impact platformBlueDot announced consolidation of its course websites under a single digital home at bluedot.org/courses, stating it was not a change in ownership but a technical/product consolidation to deliver a more seamless learning experience.
2023 Impact Report SummaryBlueDot published a 2023 impact report summary describing the nonprofit’s origin story, its course-focused theory of change, and that it ran a pilot Biosecurity Fundamentals: Pandemics course in 2023.
Act in BlueDot’s best interest: how we do expensesBlueDot published an internal-operations explanation of its expense policy (“Act in BlueDot’s best interest”) and how it is intended to reduce bureaucracy while maintaining controls for tax/charity law compliance.
Case for Support: 2024–2026BlueDot published a case-for-support post for the 2024–2026 period describing its course format, impact analysis of alumni career trajectories (as of May 2024 analysis), and a stated funding target for the 2024–2026 budget.