Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative

Cambridge, Massachusetts

https://www.cbai.ai/

early7 peopleFounded 2022

The Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative (CBAI) advances research and education aimed at ensuring a safe and beneficial transition to advanced AI systems. Founded in 2022, the organization operates fully-funded research fellowship programs for students and early-career researchers in both technical AI safety and AI governance, along with CAMBRIA, a three-week ML upskilling bootcamp focused on interpretability and alignment. CBAI also serves as fiscal sponsor for MIT AI Alignment (MAIA) and the Harvard AI Safety Student Teams (AISST), supporting Boston-area community infrastructure, office space, and programming for the broader AI safety ecosystem.

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Theory of Change

CBAI's theory of change centers on the idea that a primary bottleneck to reducing existential risk from advanced AI is the shortage of talented, well-trained researchers working on alignment and safety. By running research fellowships and technical bootcamps in the Boston/Cambridge area — home to Harvard, MIT, and Northeastern — CBAI aims to accelerate the career trajectories of promising students and early-career researchers, exposing them to mentorship from leading safety researchers and giving them hands-on research experience. Supporting student organizations at Harvard and MIT through fiscal sponsorship builds durable institutional communities that recruit and train new cohorts of safety-minded researchers each year. Taken together, these programs are intended to meaningfully increase the quantity and quality of people capable of producing high-impact AI safety research, thereby improving the field's ability to make AI development go well for humanity.