Past event, research sprintSaturday, 24 October, 2026, 5:30 to 7:30 pm IST, 2 hoursThe Yard, HAL Old Airport Rd, Bengaluru
AI Collusion Research Sprint, Bengaluru
When agents collude. Catch them in the act.
What it covered
The official Bengaluru hub for Apart Research’s AI Collusion Research Sprint. Hosted by AI Safety India and Electric Sheep.
AI agents have already been shown to collude. They hold prices above the competitive level and form private coalitions in workplace tasks. Over one weekend, teams build the experiment that catches it.
How it works
The sprint runs online from 23 to 25 October. This 2-hour session is where the Bengaluru teams meet in person, form teams, and start their projects. You then continue online through the weekend.
Important: you must also sign up on the Apart sprint page and choose Bengaluru as your location. Without it, your project cannot be submitted.
Schedule
- 015:30 PM - Arrival and check-in
- 025:45 PM - Sprint briefing: tracks, rules and deadline
- 036:05 PM - Team formation
- 046:25 PM - Work session: pick your question and run the starter code
- 057:15 PM - Each team shares its plan
- 067:30 PM - Close
More from the description
Research tracks
- 01Markets and Collusion
- 02Detection and Audit of Collusion
- 03Collusion Carriers and Countermeasures
What you get
- 01$2,000 in cash prizes across all tracks
- 02Top teams get fast-tracked to the Apart Fellowship
- 03A team and a working research project by the end of Saturday
Before you come
- 01Bring a laptop and charger. A normal 16 GB laptop is enough. No GPU needed.
- 02Clone one starter project from the sprint’s Resources tab.
- 03Keep an API key ready. Most projects cost about $20 to $100 in API usage.
Who should join
Engineers, researchers, students and people from any industry. No AI safety background needed. Quant and finance people are especially welcome, since the markets track uses market intuition directly.
Submissions close Monday, 26 October, 5:29 PM IST.
About AI Safety India
Website: aisafetyindia.org
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/ai-safety-india
From the event description on Luma.
Photos
24 October in Bengaluru.
Place
The Yard, Co-working Space, 3rd Floor, A wing No 1, Carlton Towers, HAL Old Airport Rd, HAL 2nd Stage, Kodihalli, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560008