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AI Safety India Bengaluru

Meet the people working on AI safety in Bengaluru.

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Meetups in Bengaluru

In person, from our Luma calendar.

Every event in Bengaluru

Meetups, talks and research sprints since September 2026. Each has its own page with the full details. Every sprint is also on our AI safety hackathons page.

  1. AI Safety Meet Up

    12 September 2026, 5:30 pm IST · MeetupAditya Raj on the AI safety ecosystem in India, Dr. Anusha Mujumdar on activation steering in language models, and Parishrut Jassal on practical AI auditing and holding frontier models to account. Then a mixer with researchers and community builders.

  2. May the Models Be Ever in Your Favor

    17 October 2026, 4:30 pm IST · Talk and meetupOjasvi Gupta, founder of AI Safety Dublin, on bias and fairness across the AI lifecycle, and which response works best: policy, civilian activism or technical fixes. Then networking and one-to-one conversations.

  3. AI Collusion Research Sprint

    24 October 2026, 5:30 pm IST · Research sprintTeams worked on catching AI agents that collude, at The Yard co-working space on HAL Old Airport Road: the Bengaluru site of an Apart Research sprint, on the same day as our Delhi NCR sprint.

  4. AI x Epistemics Research Sprint

    15 November 2026, 10:00 am IST · Research sprintThe Bengaluru hub of Apart Research’s AI x Epistemics sprint, in person over a weekend; the event page has the times. Teams build benchmarks, verification tools and products that help people think better. No AI safety background needed.

Last meetup

May the Models Be Ever in Your Favor, a talk and meetup. Photos from the evening are on the event page.

Ojasvi Gupta

Ojasvi Gupta speaking on bias and fairness in AI at the Bengaluru meetup, October 2026.

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Who runs it

Run by AI Safety India, with speakers from the community. Prem Tawar and Dhruva P Gowda co-host our Bengaluru events on Luma.

Portrait of Aditya Raj.
Founder and Programme Director

Aditya Raj

AI safety researcher working on multi-agent safety and interpretability. He gave the keynote at the September meetup.

Background
  • SPAR Research Fellow, researching capability spillovers from safety techniques
  • Cooperative AI researcher and NeurIPS reviewer
  • Facilitator on BlueDot Impact’s Technical AI Safety course
  • Research mentor at Sentient Futures
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How to join

  • Subscribe on Luma

    Every Bengaluru event goes up on our Luma calendar first. RSVP there. Every one so far has been free.

  • Join the WhatsApp community

    Our event descriptions on Luma link the AI Safety India WhatsApp community. You can join it from here too.

  • Sign up twice for a sprint

    Our sprints are local hubs of Apart Research sprints. RSVP on Luma, and also sign up on the Apart sprint page with Bengaluru as your location. Without it, your project cannot be submitted.

  • New to AI safety

    Start with a free six-week course, Technical AI Safety or AI Governance. Our AI safety career guide for India shows the next steps. Questions about our Bengaluru events? Write to us through the AI Safety India contact page.

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