African AI Safety Fellows - Accepted Into Top Fellowships

Are there any Africans or people of African descent who have been accepted into MATS, ERA, Pivotal, SPAR, LASR, AI Safety Camp, GovAI, IAPS, Anthropic Fellows, or similar AI safety fellowships and research programs? If yes, I'd love to hear from you. Over the past year, I've been trying to understand what the pathway into top AI safety and AI governance opportunities looks like from an African context. I've met many talented Africans interested in AI safety, governance, alignment, evaluations, interpretability, and policy. Yet when I look at some of the flagship fellowships, research programs, and labs, I rarely come across Africans who have successfully made it through. That may simply be because my network is limited. It may also be because those individuals are dispersed across different communities and institutions. Either way, I would like to learn from people who have actually done it. If you've been accepted into programmes such as: • MATS • ERA Fellowship • Pivotal Research • SPAR • LASR Labs • AI Safety Camp • GovAI • IAPS • Anthropic Fellows • Technical or governance roles at AI safety organisations please comment below or send me a DM. I'm especially interested in: • Your background before applying • What made your application competitive • Mistakes you made along the way • Advice you would give to Africans trying to enter the field today My hope is to better understand whether there are emerging pathways for African researchers, engineers, policymakers, and governance practitioners in AI safety, and to make those pathways more visible for others. If you've seen Africans succeed in these programs, or if you are one of them, I'd love to hear your story. Please comment below, send me a DM, or tag someone whose experience others could learn from. #NameDrop #AfricansInAISafety #AISafety #AIGovernance #Opportunities