Deadline: January 5, 2025
Applications for the Centre for the Governance of AI Summer Fellowship 2025 are now open. The fellowship provides an opportunity for early-career individuals or established professionals new to the field of AI governance to spend three months working on an AI governance research project, deepening their knowledge of the field, and forging connections with other researchers and practitioners. They are looking for candidates who are strongly considering using their careers to study or shape the lasting implications of AI.
As a Fellow, you will spend the first week or two of the fellowship exploring research topic options before settling on a research proposal with input from your supervisors. One of GovAI’s Research Managers, will support you in deciding what project and output will be most valuable for you to work towards, for example, publishing a report, journal article, or blog post. You will also take time to explore the wider AI governance space and discuss follow-on career opportunities in the field of AI governance with their team.
Benefits
- Fellows will receive a stipend of £11,000, plus support for travelling to London. While in London, they provide Fellows with lunch on weekdays and a desk in the new London office. This is intended to be a full-time and in-person role.
- 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
- Open to applicants from anywhere in the world.
- Given the multidisciplinary nature of the work, they are interested in candidates from a broad set of disciplines including political science, public policy, computer science, economics, history, sociology, philosophy, and law.
- 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, research experience, or professional experience in related areas.
Selection 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.
For more information, visit GovAI Fellowship.
