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This band is about where it leads. Internships, traineeships and paid programmes — fellowships, residencies, bootcamps — are rarely where you change the most, but they are often how people get into the teams where that happens. An internship with the directorate writing the national AI strategy is how people end up writing it later. Some programmes are held abroad. We list those when they are paid and last six months or less, because then you do not have to move for them.
Beijing AI Safety Residency
QingZhi AI Safety HubBeijing
AI safety research currently happens mainly in the US and the United Kingdom, while Chinese companies are also building the most powerful systems.
Programme · 13 weeksAI safetyResearchSoftware engineeringMid levelResearch Resident, US
AnthropicRemote
AI safety is a small field: a method for seeing what happens inside a language model, devised by a handful of researchers, is soon used by other labs too.
Programme · 26 weeksAI safetyResearchSoftware engineeringMid levelResearch Resident, UK
AnthropicUK
Here, research into what happens inside AI models and when they go off the rails goes straight to the people who train Claude, a system used by millions of people.
Programme · 26 weeksAI safetyResearchSoftware engineeringMid levelOxford China Policy Lab Fellowship
Oxford China Policy LabOxford
How the United States and China compete on AI helps determine whether powerful AI systems are introduced carefully or hastily.
Programme · 2 weeksAI safetyResearchPolicyEntry levelDC Summer Fellowship (2027)
Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI)Washington
How the US regulates powerful AI is largely decided in Washington by a small group of policymakers, who seek advice from think tanks such as GovAI.
Programme · 13 weeksAI safetyResearchPolicyEntry levelUK Summer Fellowship (2027), Research Track
Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI)London
GovAI is a London research institute that helps policymakers at governments and AI companies work out how to steer advanced AI in the right direction.
Programme · 13 weeksAI safetyResearchPolicyEntry levelUK Summer Fellowship (2027), Applied Track
Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI)London
According to GovAI, the scarce people in work on rules and oversight for advanced AI are not mainly researchers, but people who organise, communicate and lead policy processes.
Programme · 13 weeksAI safetyPolicyOperationsEntry levelSeed Grants
BlueDot ImpactRemoteRemote
This is not a job but start-up money: 20,000 to 200,000 dollars to spend six to twelve months setting up your own project in AI safety or biosecurity (preventing disasters involving pathogens), areas where few people…
Programme · 26 weeksAI safetyResearchSoftware engineeringEntry levelPhD: RSV Infection and Immunity, Replacing Animal Models
Netherlands Government, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)NetherlandsOn site in the Netherlands
Research into vaccines against RSV, a virus that makes many babies and older people seriously ill, still relies heavily on laboratory animals and on cell lines that bear little resemblance to real airways.
Programme · 208 weeksGlobal health and infectious diseaseResearchDataEntry levelOperational Research Fellow
International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung DiseaseRemoteRemote
With tuberculosis the bottleneck is often not the medicines but delivery, and you research where patients drop out or are diagnosed too late in national programmes in poorer countries.
Programme · 52 weeksGlobal health and infectious diseaseResearchDataEntry levelIncubator Week
BlueDot ImpactSan Francisco
Here you start something new rather than fill a vacancy: you spend five days in San Francisco working out a plan for an unsolved problem in AI safety, and if BlueDot backs it, you get up to $200,000 to turn it into an…
Programme · 1 weekAI safetyResearchPolicyEntry levelEmergent Ventures Fellowship
Mercatus Center at George Mason UniversityRemoteRemote
This is not a job but a grant: you submit an idea that does not exist yet, and if Emergent Ventures picks it, you get money to set it up, often before other funders have looked at it.
ProgrammeEffective givingFinanceEntry levelTeacher, Technical AI Safety/Governance & Strategy
ML4GoodRemoteRemote
Still relatively few people work on keeping powerful AI systems safe, and the field grows mainly through new people learning the trade.
Programme · 2 weeksAI safetyResearchCommunications and outreachMid levelFellowship, Epidemiology and Public Health Microbiology
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)RemoteRemote
Whether an outbreak of an infectious disease stays local often depends on how quickly someone on the ground works out where it came from and how it is spreading.
Programme · 104 weeksPandemics and biosecurityResearchPolicyEntry levelExecutive Catalyst: Ops & Strategy
SteadRiseRemoteRemote
Organisations trying to reduce serious risks from advanced AI are growing fast, but they have few people who have built an organisation before.
Programme · 12 weeksAI safetyManagementOperationsMid levelUndergraduate Intern, AI Safety Research and Engineering
SyntonyRemoteRemote
As an intern you won't solve much yourself: the value lies in what you take away.
ProgrammeAI safetyResearchSoftware engineeringEntry levelHumanitas Fellowship
SyntonyRemoteRemote
On how AI can be misused, and how to keep telling real from fake now that synthetic images are increasingly convincing, there is still little careful research for policymakers and lawyers to build on.
Programme · 35 weeksAI safetyResearchPolicyMid levelCareer Transition Grants, AI Safety and Biosecurity
BlueDot ImpactRemoteRemote
This is not a job but a grant: BlueDot Impact gives between 20,000 and 200,000 dollars so that you can move full-time into work on AI safety or biosecurity, rather than trying to do so alongside your current job.
ProgrammeAI safetyResearchEntry levelResearch Mentorship, Alignment Research
Supervised Program for Alignment Research (SPAR)RemoteRemote
Only a few experienced researchers worldwide work on the question of how to make powerful AI systems do what we intend — AI safety — and their guidance is what beginners lack most.
ProgrammeAI safetyResearchEntry levelPersonal Career Advising
Probably GoodRemoteRemote
This is not a job but a free advice conversation about your own career.
ProgrammeEffective careersManagementEntry levelFacilitator, Research Fellowship
MercialRemoteRemote
Anyone starting out in AI safety research, meaning research into how to keep powerful AI systems safe, rarely gets good feedback on a first piece of work, even though that feedback often decides whether they carry on.
Programme · 4 weeksAI safetyResearchEntry levelAI Security Bootcamp, San Francisco
AI Security BootcampUSA
Anyone who steals or manipulates a powerful AI model bypasses, in one go, all the safety measures its makers built into it.
Programme · 1 weekAI safetyInformation securitySoftware engineeringMid levelStage bij de Directie Multilaterale Instellingen en Mensenrechten
Ministerie van Buitenlandse ZakenRijnstraat 8 te Den HaagOn site in the Netherlands
This department helps decide how the Netherlands uses its money and its vote at UN organisations such as WHO, UNICEF and WFP.
Development finance and aid policyPolicyResearchInternshipDutch requiredDutch nationality requiredFunding, AI Safety
The Global Technology Risk FoundationRemoteRemote
AI safety, the research into how to keep powerful AI systems reliable and controllable, is a young field with few people in it.
ProgrammeAI safetyResearchEntry levelResearch Fellow, AI Interpretability
GoodfireUSA
Large AI models are trained by trial and adjustment, without anyone properly understanding why they do what they do.
Programme · 13 weeksAI safetyResearchSoftware engineeringEntry levelVisiting Research Fellow, Global Health & Development
Ambitious Impact (AIM)London
Ambitious Impact helps people set up new charities, and the ideas those founders start with come from the research team you join for five months.
Programme · 22 weeksGlobal health and infectious diseaseResearchDataEntry levelProgramme Coordinator
Animal Advocacy AfricaRemoteRemote
Animal Advocacy Africa trains people who advocate for farmed animals in African countries, in a region where livestock farming is growing fast and the rules often have yet to take shape.
ProgrammeCampaigns and advocacyOperationsManagementEntry levelEIR Ventures Program
The Good Growth CoRemoteRemote
You won't run campaigns yourself here.
ProgrammeCampaigns and advocacyResearchCommunications and outreachEntry levelAlignment Fellow
Arcadia ImpactLondon
Large AI companies know a lot about the techniques they use to make their models do what is intended, but those on the outside see little of it.
Programme · 13 weeksAI safetyResearchSoftware engineeringEntry levelMagnify Mentee
Magnify MentoringRemoteRemote
This is not a job but six months of unpaid mentoring: each month a conversation of 60 to 90 minutes with someone further along in the work you want to move into.
Programme · 26 weeksEffective careersManagementEntry levelScience and Technology Policy Fellow, Legislative Branch Cohort in AI
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)Washington
Members of the US Congress decide on AI legislation, yet their offices rarely have anyone who understands the technology itself.
Programme · 2 weeksAI safetyPolicyResearchEntry levelDutch nationality requiredRequest for Proposals: Project Tailwind
Coefficient GivingRemoteRemote
This is not a vacancy but a funding round: Coefficient Giving (formerly Open Philanthropy) is looking for people to set up a new organisation or research group in AI safety, the work meant to ensure powerful AI systems…
ProgrammeAI safetyManagementResearchEntry levelIliad Intensive
IliadUK
Research into how to keep powerful AI systems safe and predictable (AI safety) is a young field, and only a few people are working on its basic mathematical questions.
Programme · 4 weeksAI safetyResearchSoftware engineeringEntry levelIliad Fellowship
IliadUK
AI safety, the study of how to make powerful AI systems reliably do what people intend, is a young field with few mathematicians.
Programme · 26 weeksAI safetyResearchSoftware engineeringEntry levelSummer Research Fellowship (Legal Frontiers)
Institute for Law & AIRemoteRemote
Legislators in the US, the EU and the UK are writing rules for AI now, but how you make an AI system follow the law is a question few lawyers are working on yet.
Programme · 10 weeksAI safetyLegalResearchEntry levelSummer Fellowship (US)
Institute for Law & AIUSA
The law around AI is being written now, while only a few lawyers are engaging with it seriously.
Programme · 12 weeksAI safetyResearchPolicyEntry levelSummer Fellowship
Institute for Law & AI (LawAI)Washington
Few lawyers know both the law and AI well, while governments are drawing up the rules for that technology right now.
Programme · 12 weeksAI safetyLegalResearchEntry levelReporting Grants & Fellowships
Pulitzer CenterRemoteRemote
Some big problems almost nobody writes about, and what stays unknown rarely gets money or policy.
ProgrammeEffective givingCommunications and outreachResearchEntry levelAI Safety Residential Community
Centre for Enabling EA Learning & Research (CEEALAR)UK
CEEALAR pays for your room and board in Blackpool (England), so that you can work full-time on AI safety for six weeks to a year: preventing powerful AI systems from causing serious harm.
Programme · 26 weeksAI safetyResearchEntry levelAIXI Labs Research Fellowship
AIXI LabsRemoteRemote
A lot of AI safety research is mathematically rigorous but too narrow, or practically usable but too opaque to base hard safety claims on.
Programme · 13 weeksAI safetyResearchSoftware engineeringEntry level1:1 Career Guidance
Animal Advocacy CareersRemoteRemote
An advice session lasts an hour; the career that follows lasts decades.
ProgrammeCampaigns and advocacyCommunications and outreachOperationsEntry levelResearch Fellows Program
TimaeusRemoteRemote
Tenured mathematicians and physicists rarely work on the question of what happens inside an AI model during training, even though their fields, such as algebraic geometry or statistical physics, seem to have exactly…
Programme · 52 weeksAI safetyResearchSoftware engineeringMid levelCareer Advising
80,000 HoursRemoteRemote
This is not a vacancy but a free conversation with a careers adviser at 80,000 Hours, an organisation that researches which global problems are most urgent, such as the risks from AI.
ProgrammeEffective careersCommunications and outreachEntry levelExpressions of Interest
Mirror Biology Dialogues FundRemoteRemote
Mirror life (organisms built from mirrored versions of the molecules of all natural life) does not exist yet, but 38 scientists warned in Science in December 2024 that a mirror bacterium could cause unprecedented harm…
ProgrammePandemics and biosecurityResearchEntry levelFacilitating Virtual Programs
Centre for Effective Altruism (CEA)RemoteRemote
As a facilitator, you guide small groups of 3 to 8 people who are thinking for the first time about how to help others as much as possible with their work or their money.
Programme · 13 weeksCommunity buildingCommunications and outreachEntry level
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