Guidelines on Using ARENA Materials

To take part in ARENA please go to our Get Involved page to apply to our upcoming iteration or to express your interest in the next one.

Thank you for wanting to run an independent version of ARENA! This helps us in our mission to find talented people who want to contribute to AI safety, and help them build skills to become research engineers.


To support this, you can share and adapt our course materials including resource lists, exercises, sample answers and session plans, provided that you:

  • Ask for permission: Please fill in this form if you want to use our curriculums for running programs, groups etc. We will respond quickly (within 3 days). If you are an individual using it for yourself only, there is no need to fill in the form.

  • Brand it distinctly: Market the course in a way that it’s clear who’s running the course. Don’t use our names like “ARENA” or “Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator” in a way that could confuse people as to who is offering the course.

  • Give appropriate credit: When presenting these materials, please give credit to the source, for example “ARENA” or “Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator”.

  • Don’t resell our courses: Do not resell our course materials or similar derivatives, or sell facilitated versions of either. Do not use our programs in commercial settings, such as employee training programs or workplace interest groups, without our permission to do so.

  • 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 linked-to resources themselves, so you might need permission from their original owners if you want to copy them.

Example

Here’s an example of how you might market your 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 a AI alignment course this semester, based on the popular ARENA courses.

We’ll be following their curriculum, see details here. The sessions will run every Wednesday from 6-8pm in Group Study Room F starting on 17 September. To join the seminar series, RSVP at https://greendale.edu/ai-soc/ai-alignment.

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

Examples of things that would not be okay:

  • “GCC AI Society is launching a round of the ARENA program”.

  • “We’re running the ARENA program in Greendale, Colorado”.

  • “Apply to ARENA”, linking to your version of the course.

  • “Run in collaboration with ARENA”, unless we’ve explicitly agreed this.

  • Issuing certificates “for completing the ARENA program”. But it’s fine to issue certificates “for completing GCC AI Society’s AI Alignment course, based on the ARENA program”.