General Application, Future of Life Institute (FLI)
Future of Life Institute (FLI)
Opportunity type
Internship
Part-time role
Fellowship
Volunteer
Recurring opportunity
Cause areas
AI Safety & Policy
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
International Security & Cooperation
Nuclear Security
Building Effective Altruism
Routes to impact
💡 Direct/Increased Engagement with EA
📈 Skill-Building & Building Career Capital
🧪 Testing Your Fit for a Certain Career Path
🤲 Direct High Impact on an Important Cause
Relevant aptitudes
Entrepreneur
Organization Building, Boosting & Running
Political & Bureaucratic
Conceptual & Empirical Research
Communicator
Community Building
Software Engineering
Information Security
Forecasting
Duration
🗓️ Year-Round
Location
Remote
Description
In the past couple of years, The Future of Life Institute has expanded rapidly, from only a small part-time team to a full-time staff of 20+ people. We have ambitions to continue growing our team, so we are always on the lookout for talented and proactive people who are aligned with our mission.
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If you match this description then please consider filling out our ‘Rolling applications’ form below, so that we can contact you in the event that a relevant career opportunity arises. Your details will only be used for the purpose of alerting you about relevant career opportunities.
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About the Future of Life Institute
FLI is an independent non-profit working to steer transformative technology towards benefiting life and away from extreme large-scale risks. Since 2014, our work has included grant-making, educational outreach, and policy engagement.
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Our work has been featured in The Washington Post, Politico, Vox, Forbes, The Guardian, the BBC, and Wired.
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Some of our communications achievements include:
- Pause Giant AI Experiments, an open letter calling for a 6 month pause on the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. The letter has been signed by more than twenty thousand people, including Yoshua Bengio, Stuart Russell, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Yuval Noah Harari, and Andrew Yang.
- The Asilomar AI Principles, one of the earliest and most influential sets of AI governance principles. The Principles have been signed by nearly two thousand AI/Robotics researchers and nearly four thousand others.
- Slaughterbots, a viral video raising awareness about the dangers of lethal autonomous weapons.
- The Future of Life Award, which retrospectively awards unsung heroes who made the world a better place. Past winners include individuals who prevented nuclear wars, helped to eradicate smallpox, and solved the ozone crisis.
- Worldbuild.ai, which imagines flourishing futures with strong AI and works out how to get there.
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FLI is a largely virtual organization, with a team of 20 distributed across Europe and the US. We have offices in Campbell, California and in Brussels, Belgium, and meet in person as a full team once a year.
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