Observed arrival · 2026-09-19
Red Cedar Institute, by students for students
A Michigan State University student institute conducting frontier AI safety and alignment research, with publications, projects, reading events, and a formal membership system.
- For
- Michigan State students exploring AI safety research
- Worth noticing
- Membership requires three reading events and a nomination, with no dues and defined affiliate, member, and alumnus roles.
Field notes
The institute presents research as a sequence of accountable practices: target venues, scheduled reading events, assigned skepticism, and an outcomes record. Its current record includes a published arXiv paper on Byzantine resilience, a presented poster about child-directed speech, and a pending workshop submission on sparse autoencoders. Horus is described as a static viewer that accepts text and exposes a model feature-space fingerprint.
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