Researcher: AI Safety & Strategy for Positive Impact
Future of Life Organizations
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Job summary
Future of Life Foundation seeks researchers to advance AI safety through rigorous analysis, scenario planning, and policy-relevant work. You will help shape roadmaps, advise new initiatives, and contribute to community outreach while collaborating with a distributed team across North America and Europe.
This role supports responsible innovation and governance of transformative technologies. Ideal candidates have strong research credentials, interdisciplinary breadth, and a commitment to reducing
Qualifications
- Demonstrated willingness and ability to consider a range of scenarios and risks from AI.
- Proven ability to perform high-quality research, preferably in AI, existential risk, or a relevant domain.
- Strong analytical, critical-thinking, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Passion for helping to further AI safety.
Responsibilities
- Maintain FLF’s situational awareness and scenario foresight regarding AI and its interactions with technology and society.
- Envision and design interventions, seed visions, and synthesize learnings for roadmaps and initiatives.
- Advise nascent projects and organisations as they form, shaping initial teams and strategy.
- Contribute to outward communication, workshops, reports, and recruitment pipelines.
- Develop tooling and workflows to support AI safety research and governance efforts.
Skills
Education
Job description
Future of Life Foundation seeks researchers to advance AI safety through rigorous analysis, scenario planning, and policy-relevant work. You will help shape roadmaps, advise new initiatives, and contribute to community outreach while collaborating with a distributed team across North America and Europe.
This role supports responsible innovation and governance of transformative technologies. Ideal candidates have strong research credentials, interdisciplinary breadth, and a commitment to reducing
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