Boston | AI Privacy & Safety Night at MIT

Description

​The AI Furnace alongside the MIT Entrepreneurship Club (MEC) presents: AI Privacy & Safety Night at MIT.

​Agenda:

• ​5:30PM - Arrive, soft drinks & lite bites

• ​5:45PM - Demos from 3 AI Startups focused on trust and safety

  • ​Sanctum AI (Your Private Sanctum for AI, on-device AI) - Christian Crowley

  • ​TBA

  • ​TBA

• ​6:15PM - Fireside Chat: How to Not Build Skynet with Caine Ardayfio (Harvard student that built I-XRAY)

• ​6:45PM - Networking

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​ABOUT THE ORGANIZATIONS

​​​​​The AI Furnace is one of the fastest growing AI Founder + Research communities in the world. It was started by AI founders, Angela Mascarenas and Hamza Zaveri, who were based in NYC and London and started the org to support fellow AI founders and operators building in local cities outside of Cerebral Valley (San Francisco). It has since grown to a global community of 15,000 AI founders, operators and researchers and has since opened up in London, Boston, Paris, Seattle, and Dubai.

​The MIT Entrepreneurship Club (MEC) is a thriving community for undergrad founders at MIT, where students support and inspire each other in their entrepreneurial pursuits. Through programs like the MEC Sprint and Starthouse, the club encourages students to build and refine their ideas alongside peers, creating a collaborative environment for aspiring founders. Over the past two years, MEC has helped launch over 20 startups, raising more than $80 million in funding, empowering students to turn innovative ideas into impactful ventures.

​HUGE THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS 🙏

​Sanctum is a private AI platform that empowers users to engage securely with advanced, open-source large language models (LLMs) entirely on their local devices. With Sanctum, users can chat with powerful AI models, upload their own data to gain valuable insights, and even run a local API server to integrate AI capabilities across applications—all within a fully private environment. Every interaction is encrypted by default, ensuring that data remains strictly on the user’s device. Learn more about our commitment to privacy at Sanctum.ai.