BlueDot Impact

BlueDot Impact is a London- and San Francisco-based nonprofit that trains and accelerates talented people into opportunities that positively impact the development of AI. The organization was founded in 2022 by a small team at the University of Cambridge, including CEO Dewi Erwan and co-founder Will Saunter, growing out of informal AI safety reading groups that began in 2021. BlueDot started by running the world's largest courses on AI alignment, originally under the "AI Safety Fundamentals" brand associated with EA Cambridge. By late 2024 the organization had expanded into AI governance and biosecurity training, and by 2025 had launched a full portfolio of courses including an introductory Future of AI course, AGI Strategy (for leaders and entrepreneurs), AI Governance (for policymakers), Defensive Engineering (for infrastructure builders), Technical AI Safety (for ML engineers), and a Biosecurity course. The organization also runs a grants program, including Rapid Grants of up to $5,000 to remove concrete blockers for promising safety-relevant projects, and The Bridge, a forthcoming program to help experienced professionals transition into full-time AI safety or biosecurity work. As of early 2026 the team stands at 7 people, with plans to scale to approximately 20 as part of a major expansion. The organization has raised approximately $35 million in total, including a $25.6 million three-year general support grant from Open Philanthropy in 2025. Courses are free to participants, and alumni are now employed at Anthropic, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, the UK AI Security Institute, Apple, Harvard Kennedy School, Stanford HAI, NATO, the OECD, the United Nations, and Amnesty International, among others. BlueDot is registered in the UK as a private company limited by guarantee (company number 14964572, incorporated 27 June 2023) with a registered address at 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London.