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CFAR (Center for Applied Rationality) is an organization closely affiliated with the AI safety community that trains researchers and advocates in rationality skills; this archive documents its history and updates, offering context for understanding the rationalist community's influence on AI safety culture.
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An archive of updates and newsletters from the Center for Applied Rationality (CFAR), documenting the organization's activities, research, and developments in rationality training over time. CFAR focuses on teaching cognitive tools and decision-making skills relevant to addressing important problems, including AI safety. This archive provides a historical record of CFAR's evolving work and community engagement.
Key Points
- •Provides historical record of CFAR's organizational updates, program changes, and research directions over time
- •CFAR trains individuals in applied rationality techniques aimed at improving decision-making and tackling high-stakes problems
- •Updates likely cover workshops, curriculum developments, and community-building efforts relevant to the rationalist and EA communities
- •Serves as a reference for understanding CFAR's relationship to AI safety community development and epistemic skill-building
- •Documents evolution of rationality training approaches that inform how AI safety researchers think and reason
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###### Dec 29, 2025 \- Davis Tower Kingsley
#### [November 2025 Workshop Pilot Program](https://www.rationality.org/resources/updates/2025/november-2025-workshop-pilot-program)
In November, CFAR held its first mainline workshop since 2022, marking the start of a pilot program for our new style of workshops. These new workshops incorporate both some of the best of our “classic” workshop material and several new ideas and classes that we’ve been developing – for more on that, see this LessWrong post. The November workshop went quite well and we’re excited for the next step in...
[READ MORE](https://www.rationality.org/resources/updates/2025/november-2025-workshop-pilot-program)
###### Jul 1, 2025 \- Davis Tower Kingsley
#### [June 2025 Experimental Mini-Workshop](https://www.rationality.org/resources/updates/2025/june-2025-experimental-miniworkshop)
(Note: This post was written by Davis Kingsley in September 2025 and backdated to fill in our organizational history on the website. Sorry for not updating the site for a while!) Experimental Mini-Workshop (June 2025) In June of 2025, Davis saw that Arbor Summer Camp was looking for sessions and figured that a program teaching CFAR material might be a good fit! The scope of this project quickly expanded from...
[READ MORE](https://www.rationality.org/resources/updates/2025/june-2025-experimental-miniworkshop)
###### Dec 1, 2022 \- Davis Tower Kingsley
#### [2022 Czech Workshops](https://www.rationality.org/resources/updates/2022/2022-czech-workshops)
(Note: This post was written by Davis Kingsley in September 2025 and backdated to fill in our organizational history on the website. Sorry for not updating the site for a while!) 2022 Czech Workshops In autumn of 2022, CFAR held a series of four workshops in Czechia – our first mainline workshops since the COVID lockdowns! Organized by John Steidley and Irena Kotíková, these (somewhat experimental) workshops overlapped with Epistea’s...
[READ MORE](https://www.rationality.org/resources/updates/2022/2022-czech-workshops)
###### Dec 29, 2020 \- Elizabeth Garrett
#### [CFAR Newsletter (December 2020)](https://www.rationality.org/resources/updates/2020/december-newsletter)
Hello, We continue to exist! Although we’ve definitely been really quiet. Here’s what we’ve been up to. The year started well with a mainline CFAR workshop and an AIRCS workshop. Then, at the beginning of March, we cancelled any plans for in-person workshops for the rest of the year, including one that was set to start in a week. This was primarily motivated by the desire to make sure people...
[READ MORE](https://www.rationality.org/resources/updates/2020/december-newsletter)
###### Dec 20, 2019 \- Timothy Telleen-Lawton
#### [CFAR Newsletter (December 2019)](https://www.rationality.org/resources/updates/2019/december-newsletter)
Hello from CFAR! Here’s a look at what we did during the past few months and what we’re planning for the next few. We’re also in the middle o
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