During an Apart Research hackathon I got my first hands-on experience with mechanistic interpretability and fell in love with it. Now I'm working on mechinterp full-time and have published mechinterp papers at ICLR and ICML. Generally their hackathons are very accessible, well-organized, and a great entry-point for people interested in AI safety.

I believe this is a great funding opportunity for any funders interested in getting more people into working on AI safety!