Events

Midwest AIS Retreat

Racine, Wisconsin

The first ever Midwest AI Safety Retreat will bring together more than 40 students from university AI Safety groups across the Midwest, along with professionals working in AI Safety. The retreat will allow students to meet others with similar interests, develop personal plans, have high-quality discussion, and learn from professionals.

What is Going On in AI?

Rubenstein Forum, Friedman Hall Auditorium

A discussion with Stephen Casper, computer scientist and assistant professor at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and Daniel Holz, physicist at the University of Chicago and director of the Existential Risk Laboratory, to make sense of recent events in AI. What happened in the HuggingFace/OpenAI attack and the other rogue agent breakouts? Why are people calling for a slowdown?

Autumn Quarter Info Session

Come learn about our programs for the Autumn quarter!

Lightning Talks — Spring Quarter '26

Hear quick talks on AI Safety from members of our community.

Uncommon Hacks AI Safety Track

XLab is proud to sponsor the AI Safety Track of Uncommon Hacks 2026. We hope this will provide an opportunity for people to learn about AI Safety and get hands-on experience building a project that contributes to the field. Because of the relative novelty of the field, every individual contributor, even those who are less experienced, can have an outsized impact on the trajectory of AI development.

Speaker Event with Aryan Bhatt

XLab is thrilled to welcome Aryan Bhatt, Member of the Technical Staff at Redwood Research, for a virtual panel. We also hosted an in-person gathering on UChicago's campus with dinner provided.

Chicago Symposium on Transformative AI

An intensive two-day symposium bringing together undergraduates to think rigorously about the future of AI and its implications. The symposium featured talks from speakers in technical AI alignment and AI governance, and peer collaboration to challenge assumptions and develop new ideas.