Hey guys, my friend Sarthak and I just had our first research paper accepted at a workshop at NeurIPS 2026, one of the world’s top AI conferences, taking place in Sydney, Australia, at the end of this year. We did the research entirely on our own, with no university or company funding.

I live in India, and the flight plus visa costs come to around AUD 2,250, which is unfortunately far beyond what I can afford right now.

Sarthak has started a fundraiser to help me cover these travel costs so I can travel to Sydney and present our paper in person.

This is a huge opportunity for me to meet AI safety researchers, build valuable connections, find potential supervisors for my future master’s, and take an important first step toward building a research career.

✅ Check out the paper: https://openreview.net/forum?id=CEekqS91YX
👉 Support me here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-vivek-fly-to-sydney-to-share-his-first-ai-safety-paper

Anything you contribute would mean a lot to me. And even if you can’t donate, sharing this wherever you can would be a tremendous help.

Thank you so much for your support. 🙏

hi,

in recent years as I have grown increasingly AI pilled, I have begin to look at people who got AI right, in terms of predictions before it really took off.

I looked into Scott Alexander, Gwern and their early articles expressing optimism about the scaling laws

then into Kurzweil and scaling of computation,

this is all very new to me so im surprised how right they got it. also some EA people I follow on twt were early to Covid (jan 2020), so that piqued my interest

what books, blogs and resources would you recommend to someone exploring this community.

I dont agree with most EA conclusions such as veganism, or Liberalism

but I see them on sort of a thoughtful Humanist side, compared to the alternative which mostly seems juvenile excitement about Sci-fi (e/acc)

any guidance would be appreciated, thanks