Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative

The Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative (CBAI) is a 501(c)(3) public charity based in Cambridge, Massachusetts (EIN: 92-1463153). Founded in 2022 by Kuhan Jeyapragasan, Trevor Levin, and colleagues, CBAI’s mission is to advance research and education so that society navigates a safe and beneficial transition to advanced AI systems. CBAI runs intensive, fully funded research fellowship programs in Harvard Square, including a ten‑week Spring Research Fellowship and a nine‑week Summer Research Fellowship in AI safety. Recent summer cohorts select up to around 30 fellows working on technical AI safety and AI governance. Fellows receive a $10,000 stipend over nine weeks, housing support for non‑local participants, weekday lunches and dinners, 24/7 office access in Harvard Square, and up to $10,000 in compute and conference support. Fellows work closely with external mentors and in‑house research managers and attend weekly workshops and speaker events with researchers from institutions such as Harvard, MIT, Northeastern, Goodfire, AVERI, the Institute for Progress, and other leading AI safety organizations. CBAI also operates CAMBRIA (Cambridge Bootcamp for Research in Interpretability and Alignment), a three‑week ML upskilling bootcamp based on the ARENA curriculum. CAMBRIA runs multiple times per year in Cambridge and other cities, covering transformers, interpretability, reinforcement learning, and alignment for participants with prior experience in Python, multivariable calculus, and linear algebra. In addition, CBAI has launched a fully funded, nine‑week AIxBiosecurity Research Fellowship in Cambridge, focused on research at the intersection of advanced AI and biosecurity, and continues to expand its fellowship offerings across Spring, Summer, and AIxBio cycles. As a Model A fiscal sponsor, CBAI supports student‑led AI safety organizations at Harvard and MIT, including the Harvard AI Safety Student Teams (AISST) and MIT AI Alignment (MAIA). This sponsorship provides office space, funding, and operational infrastructure that enables these groups to run bootcamps, workshops, and research programs. CBAI’s work is supported by philanthropic funders such as Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy) and other donors. The organization is led by a growing professional team including a Director of Programs, Director of Operations, multiple research managers, and operations staff, with a board of directors that includes co‑founder Trevor Levin and alignment researcher Samuel Marks.