Societal Defense Researcher
CARMA's Public Security Policy (PSP) Program is seeking a Policy Researcher to advance our work on AI governance, risk mitigation, and emergency response frameworks. This role will focus on disaster preparedness planning for AI-related crises across multiple jurisdictional levels (national, state/provincial, multinational, and alliance-based), vulnerability assessments of critical societal systems, and development of robust governance approaches.
Partnerships Officer/Senior Officer
Prevail partners with ambitious organizations in Africa and South Asia to help them scale solutions that transform millions of lives. As a Partnerships Officer/Senior Officer, you’ll work closely with 2-5 organizations to identify barriers to scale and unlock growth opportunities. You’ll connect them to technical support, funding, and a global network of experts, ensuring they have what they need to deliver impact at scale.
Co-Founder in Residence, Turning Plastic Waste into Circular Olefins
We're on the lookout for entrepreneurial individuals with technical and commercial domain expertise with keen interest in founding, and building a global scale, impact driven, high growth company from ground up.We are seeking applications from experienced industry, startup and/or new science or engineering based technology development professionals from anywhere in the world to work with us on the next generation of plastics recycling.
General Application
QRI employees/interns/volunteers all work in some capacity to further the mission statement. As long as you're aligned with that, the best way right now to apply would be to fill out this general application. Familiarity with the QRI memeplex is highly encouraged!
Managing Editor
We’re hiring a Managing Editor. That, at least, is the job title, but this is a unique role, at a unique magazine, with the opportunity to heavily shape the feel and direction of Asterisk moving forward, working side-by-side with our Editor in Chief, Clara Collier.
Research Analyst
As a Research Analyst on GiveWell's Commons team, you will support our broader research team in identifying cost-effective giving opportunities. Your work will contribute to GiveWell’s decisions about how hundreds of millions of dollars will be spent to save and improve the lives of people living in the lowest-income communities in the world. You will also play a key role in fulfilling our commitment to transparency and ensuring that the work we produce is accurate and high quality.
SPAR Part-Time Contractor
Help scale SPAR's operational capacity and deliver great programming to our community of AI safety researchers.
Full-Stack Engineer
This position involves working with Max Tegmark and colleagues at the Beneficial AI Foundation supporting the turbocharging of formal verification with AI tools as described here and in Towards Guaranteed Safe AI (a high-level introduction is given in the 2nd half of this TED talk). The core idea is to deploy not untrusted neural networks, but AI-written verified code implementing machine-learning algorithms and knowledge. The position can be either remote from anywhere or by MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Software Engineer
This position involves working with Bryan Parno, Max Tegmark and colleagues at the Beneficial AI Foundation on turbocharging formal verification of Rust code with AI tools as described here and in Towards Guaranteed Safe AI (a high-level introduction is given in the 2nd half of this TED talk).
Research Scientist
We are seeking expressions of interest from both experienced and first-time Research Scientists to develop and execute on a safety research agenda and/or accelerate our existing projects.
Research Engineer
We are seeking expressions of interest from research engineers looking to work on AI safety projects and red-teaming.
Research Intern
Contribute to cutting-edge research in scalable, distributed machine learning systems alongside experienced researchers and engineers. Explore new ways of building and verifying neural networks that operate across huge, decentralised, topologies of heterogenous devices.
Communications Director and Staff Director
CARMA is seeking an exceptional combined Communications Director and Staff Director, in one person, to play a pivotal role in advancing our mission. This position combines both strategic leadership and hands-on execution of communications with high-level organizational support to ensure CARMA operates effectively while communicating its critical work with clarity and impact.
Senior Economist, Effects of Transformative AI
CARMA seeks an innovative economist to join our Geostrategic Dynamics team, exploring how advanced AI systems will reshape global economic paradigms, incentive structures, and power dynamics. You'll develop models to analyze critical risks including labor obsolescence, economic instability, concentration of power, shocks to the financial system, and degraded living standards as AI capabilities accelerate.
Senior Technical Specialist, AI Risk Assessment
We are seeking a Senior Technical Specialist to join our Comprehensive Risk Assessment team. This role combines original research in AI safety and technical governance with strong emphasis on conceptual depth and quality assurance leadership.
AI Offense-Defense Dynamics Lead Researcher
In this role, you'll lead research to decode these offense-defense dynamics, examining how specific attributes of AI technologies influence their propensity to either enhance societal safety or amplify risks.
Digital Media Accelerator
The FLI Digital Media Accelerator program aims to help creators produce content, grow channels, spread the word to new audiences. We're looking to support creators who can explain complex AI issues - such as AGI implications, control problems, misaligned goals, or Big Tech power concentration - in ways that their audiences can understand and relate to.
Plant Biology / Pathology Methods Consultants
We are looking for plant researchers with lab and/or field experience. We’re especially interested in working with grad students and postdocs. We want you to do short-term consulting for a research project aimed at assessing whether emerging AI assistants are capable of providing useful assistance in plant molecular biology and plant pathology lab work.
Student Research Assistant
This is a part time, contractor role, with a preference for candidates who will be available 10+ hours/week.
Facilitator, Virtual Programs
Join as a facilitator to help people learn about the core ideas of effective altruism. Excellent facilitators are essential to deliver a high-quality experience for participants and ultimately grow effective altruism. By facilitating, you can make an impact while improving your own knowledge.