We're excited to hear you want to run a version of our courses! This post explains how you can use our materials and what options are available depending on your goals.

To take part in our facilitated courses instead, see the courses linked on our homepage.

Our Courses

We currently run four courses: the AGI Strategy Course, the Technical AI Safety Course, the (Frontier) AI Governance Course, and the Biosecurity Course.

Using Our Curricula (Permissionless)

Running an independent version of our courses is largely permissionless. You can pick up our curricula and start running sessions with your group right away. This works well for friends, workplace groups, student societies, and other local organizations who want to engage with the material together.

You can share and adapt our course materials including resource lists, exercises, sample answers, and discussion docs, provided that you:

Brand it distinctly: Market the course in a way that makes clear who’s running it. Don’t use our name in a way that could confuse people as to who is offering the course.

Give appropriate credit: When presenting these materials, please credit us as the source as “BlueDot Impact”.

Don’t hold us liable for errors: While we try our best to ensure the accuracy and relevancy of our course materials, they’re provided solely on an “as is” basis, without warranty of any kind.

Note that we don’t own many of the linked-to resources themselves, so you might need permission from their original owners if you want to copy or translate them.

Facilitator resources: We also provide access to our facilitator templates and documents to help you run effective sessions. You can find these linked here.

Tell us how it went: After you’ve run your course, we’d love to hear from you. Email us at team@bluedot.org with how many people completed the course, what challenges you ran into, what worked well, and whether there were any standout participants you think we should know about. This helps us improve our materials and potentially connect promising people with future opportunities.

Running an Official BlueDot Cohort

If you’re interested in running an official BlueDot cohort in your location, reach out to us first at team@bluedot.org so we can discuss whether this makes sense and what it would involve.

Requirements: You must either have facilitated for us before, or be someone with deep existing context in the relevant field.

How it works: We would pay you our normal facilitator rate. However, all participants would need to apply through our standard application review process. If not enough applicants from your location clear our bar, the cohort cannot proceed. We’ll discuss expected numbers and logistics with you before you commit to anything.

What accepted participants receive: Access to our Slack community, a certificate upon completion, and additional career acceleration support.

Who this is for: This option is most relevant for local hubs in places with sufficient talent density. We maintain a high bar for our facilitated courses, so this works best in locations where you’re confident there’s a strong pool of potential applicants.

Running Courses at Companies or Institutions

If you want to run our courses internally at a company or institution - or if you’d like us to run them for you - please email us at team@bluedot.org to discuss what this may look like. We typically don't do this but may make exceptions for particularly high-impact opportunities. 

Example Marketing for an Independent Version

Here’s an example of how you might market an independent version of our course, following the guidelines above:

Calling all students interested in the future of AI safety and alignment!

🤖 The Greendale Community College AI Society is excited to be hosting an AI safety course this semester, based on the popular AGI Strategy Course developed by BlueDot Impact.

We’ll be following their curriculum. You should do the readings and exercises beforehand, and then each week we’ll host a facilitated group discussion adapted for our university setting.

The discussions will run every Wednesday from 6-8pm in Group Study Room F starting on 17 September. To join the seminar series, RSVP at this link.

If you have any other questions, email ai.soc@greendale.edu. Looking forward to some fascinating discussions! 🙂

What We Feel is Not Okay

Examples of things that would not be okay:

• “GCC AI Society is launching a round of the BlueDot Impact AGI Strategy course”
• “We’re running the BlueDot AGI Strategy Course in Greendale, Colorado”
• “Apply to the AGI Strategy Course”, linking to your version of the course
• “Run in collaboration with BlueDot Impact”, unless we’ve explicitly agreed this
• Issuing certificates “for completing the BlueDot AGI Strategy course” (it is of course perfectly fine to issue certificates “for completing GCC AI Society’s AI Alignment course, based on the BlueDot Impact curriculum”)

FAQs

Can local groups get copies of the discussion docs?

Yes! These are linked here.

Can local groups use BlueDot’s infrastructure for running courses?

Yes, almost all our software and corresponding documentation is available on GitHub. You can raise issues there if you get stuck. We aren’t currently able to provide hosted versions of our software, or technical support beyond this. Local groups are also welcome to direct users to our course hub to help learners track their own reading completions and exercises.

Can we use your facilitator training program?

Yes! The resources, exercises and session plans for our facilitator training course are available online. Though, we can’t run facilitator training for you.

I’m planning to run a local group / previously participated in a local group version. Could I join the BlueDot facilitated course?

Yes, please apply in the normal way and mention this in your application. Note that this does not guarantee you a place on our course.

What’s the difference between running an independent version and an official BlueDot cohort?

An independent version uses our curricula but is entirely run by you, for your community. An official BlueDot cohort means participants apply through our process, get access to our full resources (Slack, certificates, career support), and you’re compensated as a facilitator. The first is permissionless, the bar for the latter is higher.

If you have any other questions, feel free to contact us at team@bluedot.org.