Entrepreneur-in-Residence | GovAI Blog
The Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) role is a one-year salaried position for people who want to start a new organization or project in AI governance and safety. AI governance and safety need to be more ambitious. There is more important work to do than there are organizations to do it, and more funding is available for ambitious projects than ever before. Previous alumni of GovAI programs have launched organizations such as Trajectory Labs, which builds safety evaluations and RL environments for frontier AI labs, and the Safe AI Forum, which convenes international dialogues on AI safety. This role exists to start such new projects and organizations (for-profit and non-profit), particularly in areas where GovAI is well-placed to offer support. We offer a year of runway, $150k in seed funding via partner funders, and the support of GovAI’s team and network to figure out what to build. If we think your application could be a good fit, we’ll aim to respond within two weeks and reach a fina
About the Team GovAI was founded to help decision-makers navigate the transition to a world with advanced AI, by producing rigorous research and fostering talent. We produce a mixture of published outputs and bespoke analysis. Our researchers have published in leading journals and conferences, including Science, Nature, NeurIPS, FAccT, and ICML. We have also contributed commentary to TIME, Foreign Affairs, War on the Rocks, and Lawfare. Our work has been covered by The New York Times, Vox, and the Financial Times. In addition to our research, we run large-scale programs to help foster AI…
saved by
related reading
- Field map – AISafety.comaisafety.com
- AI safety undervalues founders — LessWronglesswrong.com
- Ten AI safety projects I'd like people to work onthirdthing.ai
- Frontier AI Governance Course | BlueDot Impactcourse.aisafetyfundamentals.com
- Field map – AISafety.comaisafety.com
- Ten AI safety projects I'd like people to work on — LessWronglesswrong.com
- AI Safety Opportunitiesaisopportunities.com
- AGI safety career advice — EA Forumforum.effectivealtruism.org
- Research Fellowship - Pivotalpivotal-research.org
- Fellowships — The Safety Apprenticesafetyapprentice.com
- AI Grantaigrant.com
- Frontier safety blueprintcdn.openai.com