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Some of Our Favorite Fellow-Submitted Videos From the First Program

This Week in AI

Avisha NessAiver

🏆 Most Clear AI Explainer 1st

Inteligencia = Buenas Decisiones

Tonchi

🏆 Most Clear AI Explainer 2nd

AI 2040

Elwyn Foote

🏆 Most Clear AI Explainer 3rd

POV: You're Reading If Everyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

Johannes Rolshausen

🏆 Physical Art 3rd

Last Year Alive

Josh

🏆 Other 1st

Watchers

Elwyn Foote

🏆 Most Creative AI Explainer 1st

Planking Until OpenAI Notices

Avalon Warren

🏆 Most Creative AI Explainer 2nd

AI Barons

Elwyn Foote

🏆 Most Creative AI Explainer 3rd

Totally Spies, But With AI

Evie

🏆 Storytelling 1st

Guess the Drink: Data Center Water Edition

Evie

💧 960k+ views

Salt Made From My Tears for My GF

John Ribeiro-Broomhead

🏆 Most Viewed 3rd · Most Original 1st

How to Remove Hooked Hangers

Max Wolff-Merovick

🏆 Most Viewed 2nd

Pheromone Perfume // Scent Based in Memories

michelle huang

🏆 Physical Art 1st

Let's Try Some Stop Motion

Jennifer

🏆 Physical Art 2nd

I Will Actually Follow You Into the Dark

John Ribeiro-Broomhead

🏆 Other 2nd

Quijote Freestyle

Tonchi

🏆 Other 3rd

Aliveness in the Face of Grief // An Ode to Lilly

michelle huang

🏆 Storytelling 2nd

Greenscreen Man

Aemily

🏆 Most Original 3rd

Besties or Lesbian?

Halina E

🏆 Most Viewed 1st

The Pitch

Our world is at a precipice, but the discourse is somehow still boring.

So we're taking over a sprawling Berkeley campus, filling it with smart, charismatic creators, a dash of incredible mentors, and a sprinkle of AI experts, then shaking the whole thing to see what happens.

We'll give you free room and board. There's just one catch:

post 15 seconds of video every day, or you're out.

Video/Day

15 seconds min. Miss a day, you're out

Cost to You

Room, food, vibes covered

$20K

In Prizes

Score points, take home cash

We're looking for scrappy, undiscovered, experimental creators: people who just need the right environment to make something great.

What You Get

The Deal

Free housing in Berkeley for the full month in a campus with 60 bedrooms. Some rooms are singles, others are shared.
Food covered. You won't starve.
Immersion with kinda famous people who have experience handling lots of eyes and want to help you do it too.
Workshops, collabs, talks, and mentorship from AI experts and content creators.
People with a wide variety of views on AI doom - this includes you.
$2,000 stipend if you get accepted.
$20K in prizes split among top scorers. Earn points by winning daily categories: most viewed, best explainer, audience favorite, and more. Different ways to win means different kinds of creators can compete.
The catch: publish one shortform video every single day. No exceptions. Miss a day = you go home. It doesn't need to be about AI but it must be at least 15 seconds long.

FAQ

Questions

We are in the process of fundraising to run three more cohorts in 2027 but are not sure yet. We hope the next will be in January 2027 but everything is tentative. Applications are still open regardless but we make no promises that we will run. Follow our twitter for updates.

No! Make videos about whatever you want. It is often very hard to get fellows to believe that you do not have to make videos about AI x-risk while they are here, but really, we just want you to make good videos. If later on you decide that you want to make content about AI, great, if not, that’s also fine with us.

We want creative geniuses, not just people who are already worried about AI doom. Some of you will probably wind up worried. Others won’t. This is fine. We’d like everybody to rub off on each other. Plus, it’s hard to constrain creativity. If you’re required to think inside the “AI worry” box, you might miss cool opportunities or ideas elsewhere. If you’re a creative genius, we just want you to do your thing.

Founders: Aella and Ronny Fernandez.

We are a charitable organization. We've received funding from MIRI and others. Currently we are waiting to hear back from Lightcone Commons to find out if we have funding to run more programs in 2027.

No. It's better if you do, but it's not required, and we have spots set aside for brand new creators.

You go home. We're really, genuinely not kidding about this. 15 seconds of video a day, every day, for the month.

You must post 15 seconds of video per day. Multiple submissions are permitted. They do not have to be good, but if you are consistently producing crap, we might talk to you about it and try to see if we can’t brainstorm some higher effort interesting stuff for you to try.

Yes. Room, food, wifi, existential dread - all covered. Accepted applicants also get a $2,000 stipend. You just need to get yourself to Berkeley.

No. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis - apply whenever, and we’ll get back to you as spots fill up. Earlier is still better.

Yes. Accepted applicants get a $2,000 stipend.