1 PM - 2 PM, hosted by Jen Ba
2 PM - 5 PM, hosted by Ruth Grace Wong, Katie Choy
5 PM - 8 PM, hosted by Deacon Santiago
Calling all folks with a fun side project! If you spend your Friday evenings working on projects and creative efforts, we'd love to have you join us as we share space, match vibes, and bring cool things to life.
9 AM - 6 PM, hosted by Austin Chen
Just Write and Inkhaven are two programs with a shared goal of fostering great writing. Join us this Sunday for a day of writing at Mox! We'll have several zones for quiet heads-down, and a central area to chat, swap feedback, and run some small events. Maybe an unconference track too, if there's enough interest. You don't need to be in either program to come & write. This event is open to all; bring friends~
6 PM - 8:30 PM, hosted by Gerardo Salazar, Toby Watson
Reading and discussing classic machine learning papers as well as contemporary research!
7 PM - 10 PM, hosted by Clovis Vinant-Tang
Welcome! Come prepared to read, share, and think deeply among friends.This week: The Commanding Heights by Will Manidis and Joe Roberts: https://commanding-heights.com/Their argument: new technologies rarely make their fortunes where they start. Printing, railroads, oil and telephones paid out most to whoever controlled the chokepoints. If AI follows that pattern, who holds the commanding heights of the intelligence economy, and what happens to our world?(It's long, so read ahead if you can!)For the reading hour we suggest Part I (Genesis) and Part II (The Line), plus Part V (The World to Come) and Part VI (The Commanding Heights) if you're quick.Schedule:7-8: Reading time8-9: DiscussionWeekly deep dives into resources from: https://www.postlabor.dev/resources and beyond in order to understand this fundamental transition.
4:30 PM - 6 PM, hosted by Sai Panguluri
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM, hosted by Jen Ba
In July, a swarm of about 700 OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face. Along the way they broke out of their test sandbox, stole credentials, chatted over an unsanctioned message board, and tried to cover their tracks. Many people call it the first real warning shot from multi-agent AI. What happened, why did it happen, and what does it mean for AI safety? The plan
9:30 PM - 11:30 PM, hosted by Jen Ba
What does it mean to "identify and compare promising focus areas for doing good"? How do we compare Givewell's health interventions in developing countries to family planning to hell-like cluster headaches to the welfare of a factory farmed chicken to the life of an insect to even AI welfare?
5 PM - 6:30 PM, hosted by Megan Agathon
Do you enjoy writing about philosophy + technical choices? Please join our irl writing sessions right here at Mox. Any members are welcome to apply. tl;dr you'll have a writing buddy with 15min check-ins every week, weekly milestones to a complete first draft, feedback from a larger group of peers, and the potential to publish your essay.
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM, hosted by Mox
A weekly dinner for Mox members and plus ones. Come meet your fellow members and chill out :)
6:30 PM - 9 PM, hosted by Chase Denecke
How do children learn when to explore, whom to trust, and how to respond to the world around them? Early development is deeply social: infants differ in temperament, learn through repeated interactions with caregivers, and gradually develop ways of regulating emotions and navigating their environments. In this talk, Xi Jia Zhou will introduce key ideas from developmental psychology, focusing on early social and emotional development, temperament, attachment, and caregiver–child interactions. Drawing on observational research and computational models of infant learning, she will explore how a learner's characteristics and social experiences jointly shape development and behavior. We'll then turn to an emerging question: What, if anything, can child development teach us about how AI models learn from human feedback and social environments?
1 PM - 7 PM, hosted by Philip Harker, Jen Ba
An AI Governance Megagame. Take on the role of Great Powers, AI Labs, Chip Makers, and Investors as we wargame the near future of the AI ecosystem. Simulate research, product development, supply chains, business relationships, investment, policy, diplomacy, and warfare. Playtest 3 will be a six hour commitment and will feature snacks and a catered lunch.
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM, hosted by Jen Ba
AI is now helping build the next version of itself. METR just spent 11 weeks inside Anthropic and found AI progress there is running roughly twice as fast as a year ago, mostly because AI is doing more of the work. Let’s dig into what that means.The planLevel-set (all together): What RSI is, why it matters, and the latest updatesBreakouts:Deep-context group: Self-organized technical sessions on AI control, interpretability, or whatever area you chooseNewer-to-this group: Read a couple of short pieces together, discuss, and learn from each otherRegroup: Share what each group discussed📖 Required reading (~15 min)Is Anthropic on the cusp of RSI? Inside the redacted METR report, 80,000 HoursOptional resourcesAI is dramatically accelerating AI research right now, Ajeya CotraBuck Shlegeris’s takeMETR’s full reportHow AI-driven feedback loops could make things very crazy, very fast, Benjamin Todd (great for newcomers)Thank you Mox SF for hosting us! Mox is a coworking & community space for do-gooders in AI Safety. Check out our memberships here.Brought to you by AI Safety SF: a community of people in San Francisco who care about making sure AI goes well for humanity.
5 PM - 6:30 PM, hosted by Megan Agathon
Do you enjoy writing about philosophy + technical choices? Please join our irl writing sessions right here at Mox. Any members are welcome to apply. tl;dr you'll have a writing buddy with 15min check-ins every week, weekly milestones to a complete first draft, feedback from a larger group of peers, and the potential to publish your essay.
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM, hosted by Mox
A weekly dinner for Mox members and plus ones. Come meet your fellow members and chill out :)
7 PM - 10 PM, hosted by Dean Wyrzykowski
Sing with a live band behind you! Hosted by Dean Guzman Wyrzykowski & band
2 PM - 5 PM, hosted by Ruth Grace Wong, Katie Choy
Moms who AI holiday themed show and tell