shocklab/African-Technical-AI-Safety-Course

African Technical AI Safety — a 12-week honours technical AI safety course (University of Cape Town, Dept. of Mathematics & Applied Mathematics). CC BY 4.0. # African Technical AI Safety — Honours / 4th-year course (UCT, Dept. of Maths & Applied Maths) > **Repo:** github.com (public, CC BY 4.0) > **Live site:** shocklab.github.io (GitHub Pages, `/docs` on `main`) > Local working folder may differ from the repo name. A 12-week technical AI safety course, two sessions per week (24 sessions), for fourth-year / honours students who understand neural networks and can program in Python. Backgrounds will vary, so the first week levels the ML foundation before the safety content proper. This folder currently holds **planning documents only** (no lesson pages built yet). The companion "Generative AI in Research" course (sibling folder) has a complete HTML/CSS design system, a GitHub-Pages build pipeline, and a reference-verification workflow that this course can reuse wholesale — see the reuse audit. ## Documents | File | What it is | |------|------------| | `00-Course-plan.md` | The full 12-week / 24-session plan: the high-level shape, the four through-lines, and a proposed assessment scheme. **Start here.** | | `03-Detailed-session-plans.md` | Each of the 24 sessions expanded: objectives, pre-class readings, lab/seminar spec, discussion questions, and a build order. | | `04-African-AI-safety.md` | How African AI safety is folded through the whole course (not a single week): the flagship multilingual-jailbreak hook, a session-by-session thread, guest candidates, open Colab-runnable African resources, and integrity caveats. | | `01-Reuse-from-GenAI-course.md` | What can be lifted from the existing "Gen AI in Research" course — ethics, energy, LLM-training, the design system, and the build/verify workflow. | | `02-Open-source-courses-research.md` | The open-source technical AI safety curricula surveyed (BlueDot, Hendrycks/CAIS, ARENA, Grosse/Toronto, Stanford, Princeton, Berkeley, Oxford), with links, licences, and what each contr …