Programmes
Upcoming Programmes
Apart Research Sprint Hackathon
Hong Kong vs New York
Solve AI Agent Collusion in Financial Systems
October 23-25
AI agents have been shown to collude: sustaining prices above the competitive level, forming coalitions in workplace tasks, and coordinating through channels nobody is watching. Over one weekend, build the experiment that catches it.
Online +
an in-person hub in Hong Kong vs an in-person hub in New York City.
In this 3-day research sprint, you will design and run experiments on collusion between AI agents: when it emerges in markets and everyday agent deployments, how an auditor can tell it from coincidence, how coordination is carried, and what a defender can do to break it.
Co-organized by Apart Research, Poseidon Research and AE Studio. No prior background in AI safety is required.
When: Friday, October 23 to Sunday, October 25, 2026
Where: online, with in-person hubs in Hong Kong and New York City on Saturday and Sunday.
Submissions close Sunday, October 25 at 11:59 PM Anywhere on Earth (AoE).
What you win
US$2,000 in Cash Prizes
🥇 1st Place $1,000
🥈 2nd Place $500
🥉 3rd Place $300
🏅 4th Place $100
🏅 5th Place $100
Apart Fellowship
Top teams continue through the Apart Fellowship for further research and mentorship.
The top team from Hong Kong is guaranteed entry.
What you receive goes beyond cash: fellowship fast-track, compute, mentor pairing from the organizing team and judges, and a pathway toward publication.
Past fellows have gone on to join leading organizations (e.g. Anthropic, METR), or even starting their own (e.g. Geodesic, Asymmetric Security).
What you will do in the hackathon
Over three days you will pick one open research question about collusion between AI agents, build the controlled experiment that answers it, and write up what you found.
The format.
Teams of one to five people pick a track, come up with a project, and ship. There is no requirement to have participated before, no requirement to have a team in advance and no specific background needed.
Starting points.
Every research question is tied to existing papers and open-source code. The Resources tab (on the Apart website) has a practical start for each one: starter code, a weekend-sized project, and a rough cost estimate. All default routes use a normal 16 GB laptop and no GPU. Full details of research questions and resources can be found on the Apart website.
AGI Strategy Course
Coming soon.
The launchpad for AI safety. In 25 hours, understand the landscape, pick a direction, and start moving.
Navigate the most critical technological shift of our time. Based on the acclaimed BlueDot Impact curriculum, this 5-week introductory course provides a structured foundation in AGI strategy. Designed for beginners, you’ll read and discuss the technical landscape, governance challenges, and strategic frameworks necessary to understand the safe development of Artificial General Intelligence.
Join a cohort of motivated learners to cut through the hype and build a clear, actionable understanding of the risks and opportunities ahead. The key difference from BlueDot? We run this course fully in person, so you will meet like-minded individuals in Hong Kong who share your curiosity and motivation about AI safety.
Past Programmes
TARA
organized with the support of AI Safety HK
Saturdays, 14 weeks September-December 2026.
Applications Closed
The Technical Alignment Research Accelerator (TARA) is a 14-week part-time program that builds technical AI safety skills for talent across the Asia-Pacific region.
Participants work through the ARENA curriculum via full-day Saturday sessions plus 2-7 hours of independent learning during the week.
You'll learn and implement key concepts like transformer architectures, mechanistic interpretability, reinforcement learning, and model evaluation techniques. Working in groups of 10-20 participants, you'll practice pair programming - where two people collaborate on code together, taking turns to write and review - all under the guidance of an experienced teaching assistant and expert support.
ML4Good
organized with the support of AI Safety HK
Bootcamp dates: October 17-25
Applications Closed.
Advance your career in AI Safety. Eight days of intensive, in-person training, in Hong Kong.
Free. On-site accommodation and all meals included.
Dual tracks:
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Technical Programme for machine-learning engineers, computer science graduates, technical researchers.
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Governance and Strategy Programme for policy/legal professionals, operations, communicators, and strategists.
