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Safety Research Fellowship

Several curated fellowships, each pairing an emerging African researcher with a senior advisor. Funded, part-time or full-time, and judged on what you publish.

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Length
Three to twelve weeks
Cost
Funded
Structure
One advisor, one project
Output
Published work

The fellowships

Each runs on its own cycle. Apply to the one that matches the work you want to do.

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AI Safety x Content

The communication track. Make seminal AI safety essays, big ideas and catastrophe scenarios accessible to non-technical people through video.

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Upcoming
Interpretability

Open the model. Find the features, circuits and representations that explain what it is doing.

Upcoming
Evaluations

Design and run evaluations that hold up, including in languages the frontier labs have barely tested.

Upcoming
Alignment

Specification, oversight and the open problems in getting systems to do what was actually intended.

Who we look for

Fellows come from the residency, from universities, and from careers that look nothing like research. What they share is the appetite to finish something publishable.

01A question you actually want to answer, described in a paragraph.
02Enough grounding in your chosen track to start work in week one.
03Willingness to be supervised closely and corrected often.
04Capacity to give the fellowship the hours it needs.

How selection works

Step one
Written application

Background, your question, and why this track.

Step two
Conversation with an advisor

A discussion of the project, and whether the pairing is right.

Step three
Offer

A funded fellowship with a named advisor and a scoped project.

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Placement
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The AI Safety x Content Fellowship is open

Apply now, or register interest and we will write to you when the next fellowship opens.

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