Jose Gelves
Co-founder and director
Digital transformation consultant at Universidad de los Andes for MinTIC, Colombia’s ICT ministry. Pathfinder fellow at Kairos and ambassador for Apart Research.
Since 2024
About us
A community in Colombia working to reduce the risks of advanced artificial intelligence.
About us
AI Safety Colombia is a community, founded in 2024, working to reduce the risks of advanced artificial intelligence. We train people who want to enter the field, support research and run open events.
The community brings together students, researchers, engineers and policy professionals. People take part through the reading group, the seminars, the talks and the research hackathons: here is how to join.
We work with Apart Research and BlueDot Impact, with support from Kairos and Coefficient Giving.
The team
Fernando Avalos
Co-founder (in memoriam)
He was a researcher at Apart Research and a research engineer and risk analyst at the Observatory of Global Catastrophic Risks.
Facilitators
Camila Beltrán
AI Control reading group
AI governance consultant for several organisations. Member of the OECD expert group and associate researcher with the ITU’s AMAS Young Research Programme.
Tomás Antolinez
Political Science and Law student at Universidad de los Andes. Former youth delegate to the IX Summit of the Americas.
Helen Stefany Penagos
Associate consultant at Mastercard and Data Science student at Universidad Externado de Colombia. Honourable mention at Apart Research's Global South hackathon for "Why do agents obey?".
Andrés Mosquera
AI interpretability researcher at Universidad de los Andes, where he is doing a master's in Computer Science. Latin America prize at Apart Research's Global South hackathon for "Which reasoning steps produce the bias".
Volunteers
Sofía Botia
Volunteer
Law student at Universidad de los Andes. Research assistant at Penn State and research monitor at Harvard Business School.
Leonardo Párraga
Volunteer
Co-founder and co-director of the Colombian Coalition on Youth, Peace and Security. Master’s in international education policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Manuel Cabrera
Volunteer
Recently worked as a full stack developer at Effective Altruism Uniandes. He has just finished secondary school.
Want to volunteer?
There is no membership and no open call: you turn up at an event, a programme or a conversation.