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Senior Technical Specialist, AI Risk Assessment

Future of Life FoundationRemote

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Why this is on the board

Whoever decides how the risks of advanced AI are measured helps decide what governments, researchers and funders pay attention to. You develop methods to trace how an AI system that goes off the rails can grow, through society, into a disaster. If those methods are good enough, others will adopt them and build on them.

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About the role

Senior technical specialist developing risk assessment methodologies and threat models for advanced AI systems. - Develop techniques for discovering threat models and generating risk pathway analyses capturing societal and sociotechnical dimensions. - Model multi-node risk transformation, amplification, and threshold effects propagating through social systems. - Contribute to design of robust technical governance frameworks and assessment methodologies for catastrophic risks including loss-of…

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