NLUndergraduate Intern, AI Safety Research and Engineering
SyntonyRemote
Global catastrophic risksAI safetyResearchSoftware engineering
Why this is on the board
As an intern you won't solve much yourself: the value lies in what you take away. AI safety, the research into how to keep powerful AI systems controllable, is a small field, and a finished experiment or research note with feedback from a mentor may be exactly what you later need to actually work in it.
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About the role
Mentored AI safety research and engineering internship for undergraduates on self-contained projects. - Work on technical or interdisciplinary AI safety questions matched to your background and interests. - Develop research skills through literature review, evidence assessment, and communicating findings on AI risk or governance. - Build engineering skills via evaluation methods, experiments, data analysis, or research tools with technical guidance. - Produce a research brief, documented expe…
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