Talk
Cooperative AI Research Fellowship Closing Showcase
- Apr 24, 2026
- The Hasso Plattner School of Design Thinking Afrika
- 113 attendees
A thriving community of curious, compassionate, and courageous practitioners.
We regularly host events that create community cohesion, raise awareness of AI safety, and engage national AI stakeholders. We host weekly reading groups and meetups at our co-working space in Cape Town. This is a core pillar of our community. Outside of these regular events, we often run workshops at national AI conferences and host talks featuring world-class AI safety researchers. Upcoming events are listed on our Luma calendar.
Highlighted Events
Workshop
AI Safety Research Workshop
- Mar 27, 2026
- School for Data Science and Computational Thinking
- 15 attendees
Talk
AI Safety SA 2026 Kick Off Event
- Feb 20, 2026
- Workshop17 Kloof Street
- 80 attendees
All events
| Event | Type | Date | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
Reading Group: Reasoning Models Struggle to Control their Chains of Thought
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Reading Group | May 20, 2026 | Workshop17 Kloof Street |
Reading Group: It's just distributed computing: Rethinking AI governance
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Reading Group | May 6, 2026 | Workshop17 Kloof Street |
ML4Good SA Community Social 🎉
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Meetup | Apr 29, 2026 | Our Local Kloof Street |
Reading Group: Emotion Concepts and their Function in a Large Language Model
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Reading Group | Apr 15, 2026 | Workshop17 Kloof Street |
CAIRF Seminar Series: You can't study game theoretic dynamics if you can't compute equilibria | Eugene Vinitsky
|
Seminar | Apr 9, 2026 | Workshop17 Kloof Street |
Reading Group: Symbiotic Alignment via Collective Predictive Coding
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Reading Group | Apr 1, 2026 | Workshop17 Kloof Street |
ShockLab Seminar: Similarity as a Signal: Do Al Agents Cooperate More When They Know They're Alike?
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Seminar | Apr 1, 2026 | UCT Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics |
Reading Group: The Artificial Self: Characterising the landscape of AI identity
|
Reading Group | Mar 25, 2026 | Workshop17 Kloof Street |
CAIRF Seminar Series: Beyond Meditations on Moloch | Ashley Hodgson
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Seminar | Mar 25, 2026 | Workshop17 Kloof Street |
Reading Group: Words That Make Language Models Perceive
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Reading Group | Mar 18, 2026 | Workshop17 Kloof Street |
ShockLab Seminar: Delegating Deliberation to Agents
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Seminar | Mar 11, 2026 | UCT Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics |
Reading Group: LLMs Miss the Multi-Agent Mark
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Reading Group | Mar 4, 2026 | Workshop17 Kloof Street |
Reading Group: Governing AI Agents
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Reading Group | Feb 25, 2026 | Workshop17 Kloof Street |
Chai & Connect: Africans @ India AI Impact Summit Social
|
Meetup | Feb 20, 2026 | Cafe Lota, India |
Toward Collective Action: Roundtable on Safe & Trusted AI in Africa
|
Other | Feb 20, 2026 | Bharat Mandapam, India |
Reading Group: AI Tools for Existential Security
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Reading Group | Feb 18, 2026 | Workshop17 Kloof Street |
Reading Group: The Assistant Axis
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Reading Group | Feb 11, 2026 | Workshop17 Kloof Street |
Reading Group: LLMs Report Subjective Experience Under Self-Referential Processing
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Reading Group | Jan 21, 2026 | Workshop17 Kloof Street |
Reading Group: Natural Selection Favors AIs over Humans
|
Reading Group | Dec 17, 2025 | Innovation City Cape Town |
Community Update & Lightning Talks
|
Talk | Dec 12, 2025 | Innovation City Cape Town |
Reading Group: Toward a Safe Internet of Agents
|
Reading Group | Dec 10, 2025 | Innovation City Cape Town |
Reading Group: Disrupting the First AI-Orchestrated Cyber Espionage Campaign
|
Reading Group | Dec 3, 2025 | Innovation City Cape Town |
AISSA Community Hike🌲
|
Other | Nov 29, 2025 | East Fort, Chapman's Peak |
Reading Group: AI Can Help Humans Find Common Ground in Democratic Deliberation
|
Reading Group | Nov 26, 2025 | Innovation City Cape Town |
⚡Lightning Talks
|
Talk | Oct 30, 2025 | Innovation City Cape Town |
Post-Course Social 🎉 (Cape Town)
|
Meetup | Oct 25, 2025 | Newport Market & Deli |
Post-Course Social 🎉 (JHB)
|
Meetup | Oct 25, 2025 | Mugg & Bean Rosebank Mall |
Reading Group: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies
|
Reading Group | Oct 22, 2025 | Innovation City Cape Town |
Reading Group: Underwriting Superintelligence
|
Reading Group | Oct 8, 2025 | Innovation City Cape Town |
ACX Goes Climbing
|
Meetup | Oct 5, 2025 | CityROCK Cape Town - Indoor Climbing Gym |
Reading Group: Why Language Models Hallucinate
|
Reading Group | Oct 1, 2025 | Innovation City Cape Town |
AI & the future of jobs...
|
Other | Sep 30, 2025 | Simonsberg Men's Residence |
Apply With Me: Cooperative AI Research Fellowship
|
Other | Sep 27, 2025 | Google Meet |
Project Day
|
Other | Sep 27, 2025 | Innovation City Cape Town |
Office Hours: AI Safety Programs (AISSA)
|
Other | Sep 26, 2025 | Google Meet |
Apply With Me: Cooperative AI Research Fellowship
|
Other | Sep 22, 2025 | Google Meet |
Cooperative AI Research Fellowship Info Session
|
Other | Sep 18, 2025 | Zoom |
Reading Group: On the Biology of a Large Language Model
|
Reading Group | Sep 17, 2025 | Innovation City Cape Town |
AI Safety South Africa Community Networking (Virtual)
|
Other | Sep 11, 2025 | Google Meet |
⚡Lightning Talks
|
Talk | Aug 28, 2025 | Innovation City Cape Town |
Project Day
|
Other | Aug 16, 2025 | Innovation City Cape Town |
Movie Night
|
Other | Aug 13, 2025 | Innovation City Cape Town |
⚡Lightning Talks
|
Talk | Jul 31, 2025 | Innovation City Cape Town |
AISSA x Apart Research Sprint
|
Other | Jul 25, 2025 | Innovation City Cape Town |
DLIX 2025 Workshop
|
Other | Jul 8, 2025 | Stellenbosch University |
AI Safety Course Meet & Greet: JHB
|
Meetup | Jul 7, 2025 | Randburg, Gauteng |
AI Safety Course Meet & Greet: CT
|
Meetup | Jul 5, 2025 | Col'Cacchio Foreshore |
AI Safety Course Meet & Greet: PTA
|
Meetup | Jul 5, 2025 | Pretoria, Gauteng |
⚡Lightning Talks
|
Talk | Jun 26, 2025 | Innovation City Cape Town |
⚡Lightning Talks
|
Talk | May 22, 2025 | Innovation City Cape Town |
Community Meetup: Astral Codex Ten (ACX)
|
Meetup | May 8, 2025 | Tiger's Milk Kloof Street |
Reading Group: Auditing Misaligned Models
|
Reading Group | Mar 26, 2025 | Innovation City Cape Town |
Community Update: Shifting Landscapes & Evaluating AI Agents
|
Talk | Mar 12, 2025 | Innovation City Cape Town |
Stellies AI Safety - First Meetup
|
Meetup | Feb 5, 2025 | stellenbosch_university |
Reading Group: DeepSeek-R1 and its Implications
|
Reading Group | Feb 5, 2025 | Innovation City Cape Town |
AI Safety WITS - First Meetup
|
Meetup | Feb 1, 2025 | wits_university |
Reading Group: AI Governance
|
Reading Group | Jan 29, 2025 | Innovation City Cape Town |
|
AI Governance Faculty Meetup Early 2025
|
Meetup | Jan 20, 2025 | cape_town |
|
Cooperative AI Talk and Discussion
|
Talk | Jan 15, 2025 | innovation_city |
|
Deep Learning IndabaX (July 2024): An Introduction to AI-Risk, Key Concepts in AI Safety
|
Workshop | Jul 15, 2024 | indabax_venue |
|
Deep Learning IndabaX (July 2024): AGI Horizons: Utopia, Dystopia, and Everything in-Between
|
Panel | Jul 15, 2024 | indabax_venue |
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EA South Africa x AI Safety Cape Town (May 2024): AI Safety Virtual Workshop (Pilot)
|
Workshop | May 15, 2024 | online |
|
IndabaXS (March 2024): AI Safety Roundtable
|
Workshop | Mar 20, 2024 | indabaxs_venue |
|
EASA Summit
|
Other | Jan 1, 2024 | TBD |
|
G20 Side Event: AI Governance Panel
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Panel | Jan 1, 2024 | Harvard Africa Office, Johannesburg |
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SACAIR (November 2023): AI Safety Tutorial
|
Workshop | Nov 15, 2023 | sacair_venue |
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IndabaXS: AI Risk and Opportunity in Africa
|
Workshop | Aug 10, 2023 | indabaxs_venue |
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Deep Learning IndabaX (July 2023): AI Safety and Governance Workshop
|
Workshop | Jul 20, 2023 | indabax_venue |
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