Good things about the program:

I learnt a lot about alignment in doing the prep, interviewed a lot of agent foundations researchers, learnt some neuromorality, talked to some neuroscientists, saw lots of what it takes to organize an event like this and have it go well.
Marketing went pretty well - got 298 candidates, ~50% of whom had phds, applicants included senior researchers/engineers from Nvidia, Meta, AMD, AWS, etc. And also feels like there's a lot left on the table for the marketing, lots more I can do.

I also made lots and lots of mistakes.

Essentially, it started 2 weeks late, quite disorganized, into the actual program, meaning that participation late was much, much, lower than signup rate - about 15 people actually took part, whereas 298 signed up.

The reasons for this and what I'm going to do to make sure it doesn't happen again:
One:
- Promised that the first 300 applicants would be guaranteed personalized feedback. Thought that I could delegate to other, more technical members of the team for this.
However, it turned out that in order to give useful feedback and to be able to judge if someone was [...]

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First published:
December 16th, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/r7zBJzxSbjLGehhRg/mistakes-in-the-moonshot-alignment-program-and-what-we-ll

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“Mistakes in the Moonshot Alignment Program and What we’ll improve for next time” by Kabir Kumar

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