Deadline: August 11, 2024
Applications are open for the Center for the Governance of AI Winter Fellowship 2025. GovAI’s mission is to help humanity navigate the transition to a world with advanced AI. Their world-class research has helped shape the nascent field of AI governance. Their team and affiliate community possess expertise in a wide variety of domains, including US-China relations, arms race dynamics, EU policy, and AI progress forecasting.
They are looking for early-career individuals or established professionals new to the field of AI governance to join their team for three months and learn about the field of AI governance while making connections with other researchers and practitioners. This opportunity will be a particularly good fit for individuals who are excited to use their careers to shape the lasting implications of AI.
Summer and Winter Fellows join GovAI to conduct independent research on a topic of their choice, with mentorship from leading experts in the field of AI governance. Fellows will also join a series of Q&A sessions with AI governance experts, research seminars, and researcher work-in-progress meetings. Each Fellow will be paired with a supervisor from the GovAI team or affiliate network.
Stipend
- Summer and Winter Fellowships last for three months, and Fellows will receive a stipend of £9,000, plus support for travelling to Oxford. While in Oxford, they provide Fellows with lunch on weekdays and a desk in their office.
- This is intended to be a full-time and in-person role, based in Oxford, UK. They are able to sponsor visas. For successful applicants who require a visa, note that you will need to remain in your country of visa application for some time while the visa application is underway.
Eligibility
- They accept applications from anywhere in the world.
- They strongly encourage you to apply if you have an interest in GovAI’s work and are considering using your career to study or shape the long-term implications of advanced AI.
- Given the multidisciplinary nature of their work, they are interested in candidates from a broad set of disciplines including political science, public policy, history, economics, sociology, law, philosophy, and computer science.
- They are particularly interested in hosting more researchers with strong technical backgrounds. There are no specific educational requirements for the role, although they expect that the most promising candidates will typically have relevant graduate study or research experience in related areas.
Assessment Criteria
When assessing applications, they will be looking for candidates who have the following strengths or show positive signs of being able to develop them:
- Quality of work: The ability to produce clearly written, insightful, and even-handed research. They are particularly excited about strong reasoning ability and clear and concise writing.
- Relevant expertise: Skills or knowledge that are likely to be helpful for work on AI governance. They think that relevant expertise can take many different forms. Note that they also do not have any strict degree requirements.
- Judgement: The ability to prioritise between different research directions, and good intuitions about the feasibility of different research directions.
- Team fit: Openness to feedback, commitment to intellectual honesty and rigour, comfort in expressing uncertainty, and a serious interest in using your career to contribute to AI governance.
Application
The application process consists of a written submission in the first round, a remote work test in the second round, and an interview in the final round. They expect to reach out to Winter Fellowship candidates for paid work tests in August, offer interviews in September, and communicate final decisions to candidates in October. Feel free to reach out to [email protected] if you would need a decision communicated earlier than the standard timeline (this may or may not be possible), or have questions about the application process.
For more information, visit GovAI Fellowship.
