Global South AI Safety Hack - London Hub
The Global South faces risks from advanced AI that are not addressed through frontier AI safety efforts. Global South-context deployment-side risks include deepfake-driven electoral interference, data-colonial dependency on foreign infrastructure, compute and semiconductor scarcity constraining sovereign AI capacity, and large-scale labour market disruptions.
Spend the weekend testing ideas for misuse resilience, differential defense acceleration, and mitigating gradual disempowerment. This could take the form of:
Policy recommendations.
Evals and benchmarks that build on existing work and transfer to African contexts.
Monitoring and tooling for capturing harms that are not yet at the foreground of AI safety.
Open: any other project relevant to AI safety in the region that doesn't fit the categories above.
Who should participate?
All race, color, and gender. We’re promoting a collaborative approach between both developing and developed world, where knowledge sharing and technical transfers thrive. No cross-domain experience required. Deep expertise in your own track is enough.
What you will do?
Over 48+ hours, you will form a team, choose a track, and contribute working code, documentation, or research to a repository. This hackathon is hosted by Apart Research in partnership with other hubs including Slessor Lab to prototype contextual solutions. Light food & drinks will be made available.
What happens next?
All submitted work will be reviewed by expert judges. Top contributions have price rewards. They’ll be invited for fellowship programs by Apart Research, featured publicly and may be invited for further development or publication.
Findings from this event will feed into ongoing research and policy work on AI safety in the developing world
Why join?
It is a global community network with 1000+ Signups across 4+ continents
Apart Research - https://apartresearch.com/sprints/global-south-ais-hackathon-2026-06-19-to-2026-06-21
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