Project Details
Updated 07/13/26 · Edited by orgBAISH is the largest AI Safety hub in Latin-America. Founded in 2024, we have a WhatsApp community with over 250 members. As a whole, we've been instrumental in placing at least 5 of our members (including directors) into full-time AI Safety roles, working at companies such as Equistamp, 80000 hours, and Apart Research. Additionally, we've helped get 20 of our members placed into external AI safety fellowships, and upskilling programs, including MARS (4), SPAR (4), ML4Good (8), ARENA (2), Cambria (2), CLR, Algoverse, CORDA, Apart Secure Program Synthesis Fellowship, and Iliad.
Our activities include, but are not limited to:
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Fellowship Program: Supported by CG, our community started the AISAR program; an in-person fellowship for technical AI Safety research. The first edition ran through the 2nd semester of 2025 for 6 scholars, and will now run again for 15 scholars.
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Courses: Supported by 3 rapid grants from BlueDot, we have run 8 BlueDot cohorts, and in the past we've run 4 other courses similar to the old AI Safety Fundamentals course, and a research workshop. We've had a total number of over 80 people
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Community Events: We run monthly networking and social events, which usually have an in-person attendance of 50-80 people, with an average of ~50% of them being newcomers. We have a Luma website with almost 500 subscribers. We've also supported part of a 16-person Argentinian delegation going to the last EAG London (May 2026).
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Communication: We have a dedicated team of volunteers and paid community managers in charge of our communication. This mainly includes the instagram profile.
Team
Founding team and Directors:
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- Research Manager Lead at Apart Research
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- Research Engineer at Equistamp
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- Product Engineer at 80,000 Hours
Advising team:
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- AI Enablement Manager at Epoch
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- Professor at University of Buenos Aires
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- Lead Research Scientist at Poseidon Research
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- Oxford Post-doc working on Formal Verification x AI Safety
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- MIRI
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- Technology Fellow at the Institute for Progress
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- Director of CEGIA
Managers and leadership:
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Nicolás Spinelli | Communications Lead
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Marina Romanisio | Community Lead
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Rocío Monjes | Operations Lead
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Guido Bergman | Courses Lead
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Nicolás Martorell | Research Lead
Team and Volunteers:
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María Borrell
Currently, BAISH is being run by a (growing) team of 16 volunteers, who can each put a limited number of hours into the project. The funding we've received so far only manages to cover for regular day-to-day spendings, and cannot (contractually) be used to pay for salaries. We've recently hired a part-time ops lead, as well as some community managers, all paid out of pocket with the money the directors donated. In order to grow, our current limitation is both seniority and time-commitment. In order to secure senior, full-time people, we concluded we need to have our own source of funding for paying salaries.
Theory of Impact
Updated 07/13/26 · By grantmaking.aiThe AI Safety field building efforts are not on track to meet the demand that the challenge presents. We need more people working in making AI go well, decreasing extinction level risks. Most of the talent is currently not working on this most important problem, and there are diverse sources of talent distributed throughout the world. Buenos Aires, Argentina (16M people) has one of the top-100 universities in the world, as well as a moderately big startup and tech ecosystem. We aim to reduce x-risks by tapping into the Argentinian talent pool, help them go through the necessary upskilling and get them ready for placement in impactful positions, be it locally or abroad.
People
Updated 07/13/26 · Edited by orgTeam Member
Track Record
We've been instrumental in placing 5 of our members (including directors) into full-time AI Safety roles, working at companies such as Equistamp, 80000 hours, and Apart Research. Additionally, we've helped get 20 of our members placed into external AI safety fellowships, and upskilling programs, including MARS (4), SPAR (4), ML4Good (8), ARENA (2), Cambria (2), CLR, Algoverse, CORDA, Apart Secure Program Synthesis Fellowship, and Iliad.
Discussion
BAISH has done an outstanding job building a trusted AI Safety community in Argentina and making the field far more visible and accessible across the Latin American region. The team is thoughtful, highly capable, and has proven ability to turn funding into meaningful, lasting impact.
BAISH is run by an amazing team of talented people that genuinely care about AI Safety. I have collaborated with them in organizing many events for the AI Safety argentine community and have seen them tackle each with responsibility and dedication.
BAISH has successfully built a very strong AI Safety community in Buenos Aires with a large number of members who are highly enthusiastic about contributing to the field, and it serves as a catalyst for their impact, helping they secure positions in the global talent pipeline. Personally, my involvement with BAISH was essential to obtain the role of Research Manager at Apart.
As a mathematician from Tandil, Argentina, I can attest first-hand to BAISH's impact. Through their community I connected with AI Safety professionals and landed an international research fellowship where I now work on technical AI safety. BAISH is doing exactly what it claims: finding technical talent across Argentina (not just Buenos Aires) and turning it into people actively contributing to the field.
Thanks to BAISH, I found out about the applications for an AI Safety fellowship I completed in Argentina in 2025 (AISAR), as well as other international programmes I took part in, such as ML4Good and ARENA. They marked the beginning of my transition towards becoming a technical AI safety researcher, a journey that has now led me to participate in the Summer Research Fellowship at the Center on Long-Term Risk (CLR). BAISH supported me throughout the entire process, and I am incredibly grateful to them.
Hi @Eitan Sprejer ! Excited about this one — based on our grantmakers' reviews, we're making a grant of $27,000 . Two quick questions before we distribute:
- Did you receive funding from anywhere since submitting this application, or has the funding ask changed for any other reason?
- Please confirm your commitment to post quarterly updates on how the project is going.
Hi @Anton Makiievskyi 🔸! That's great news, thank you so much!!
- No. It hasn't changed, and the minimum ask won't change. However, I was wondering if we could edit the scope for the "ideal" funding ask.
- Yes. I commit on posting quarterly updates on how the project is going.
I am biased because 2 people from BAISH now work with me at Apart. Overall I am very excited about the south american AIS field building efforts. Particularly excited about the BAISH team 💪🏼
As someone building AI safety infrastructure for the Spanish-speaking world myself, I've seen firsthand how much groundwork BAISH has laid, and how far a small team of committed people can go with the right structure. I've learned a great deal from them, and expect to keep learning as I am doing the same on the Spanish-speaking side of the field. Their track record on placements and fellowships speaks for itself. Fully endorse this ask 👏
Great team leading impactful work in Argentina and coordinating with the LATAM region more broadly!
I know all three founders personally and am genuinely impressed by their strategic vision, executive ability, and overall competence. Strong endorsement.