Harvard alum launches Hispanic AI Safety Institute after viral Spanish-language reach

Tobias Martin is turning the audience behind his viral Spanish-language AI safety content into a new institute aimed at Spanish-speaking communities. The Hispanic AI Safety Institute will offer training, curated resources and an open waitlist for its first online course as AI safety debates remain largely English-language.

Why it matters: - The Hispanic AI Safety Institute aims to bring Spanish-speaking communities into AI safety and governance conversations that have largely happened in English. - The launch could broaden access to AI risk education across the U.S. Hispanic community and Latin America. - Martin’s following gives the project an existing audience of more than 35,000 followers and more than 7 million views on Spanish-language AI safety content.

What happened: - Tobias Martin launched the Hispanic AI Safety Institute, or HASI, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 23, 2026. - Martin built the new institute after growing @eltechbro, his Spanish-language AI safety account. - HASI opened a waiting list for its first online course, “AI Safety, Strategy and Leadership,” on the institute’s website.

The details: - Martin is a Harvard-trained educator and communications specialist at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. - Martin said the response to eltechbro, which he launched in February, showed Spanish-speaking audiences want AI safety information but face an access barrier. - HASI was created to deliver accessible AI literacy and specialized AI safety training to Spanish speakers globally. - The institute’s website includes a curated, topic-indexed digital library of Martin’s explanatory videos. - Martin has also appeared as an AI safety analyst for France 24, Univision and Caracol Radio. - Martin has explained security vulnerabilities including the OpenAI and Hugging Face incident. - Martin holds a Future of Life Institute grant supporting a Spanish-language video series. - Martin is a fellow in the MARS program at the Cambridge AI Safety Hub. - Before entering AI safety, Martin worked in education policy. - Martin holds an Ed.M. in Learning Design, Innovation, and Technology from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a B.S. from Minerva University.

Between the lines: - The project is as much about language access as technical education. - HASI is positioning itself as both a training pipeline and a media hub, which can help convert attention into sustained participation. - The emphasis on governance and research synthesis suggests the institute wants Spanish speakers involved in policy discussions, not just consumer-level AI literacy.

What's next: - HASI will use the waitlist to build enrollment for its first course. - The institute plans to expand Spanish-language AI safety education, public communication, research synthesis and governance participation. - Martin’s existing social channels and media appearances are likely to remain a distribution engine for the new institute. - The full announcement is available at Hispanic AI Safety Institute.