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Spend 8+ hours a week making a difference while getting valuable research experience working on the world's most pressing problems. We focus on global issues where research can potentially have an outsized impact, and where we can attract excellent mentors to support our fellows.

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  • Work on specific projects. Apply to work on research led by project leads from a wide range of high-profile organisations, including University of Oxford, GovAI and Eleos AI.

  • Boost your future impact. Add direct experience with well-known researchers and publications to your CV. You can develop high-value professional relationships, leading to future opportunities, and build other connections with our support.

  • Work remote-first and part-time. We want to find the research talent that other programs are missing in their recruitment, where location and time constraints might be a barrier to entry. We are happy to accept applications from a wide variety of people, including students, existing researchers, and early- to mid-career professionals looking to pivot into the field.

Our project leads are from organisations at the cutting edge of AI Safety.

See our Project Leads

Fellowship Projects

AI Policy

AI Policy projects conduct robust, multidisciplinary research to inform governments’ responses to developments in AI.

In the next few months, we will work on:

Policy & Governance: projects in shaping rules, standards and institutions around AI on a national and international scale across private and public sectors.

Economy, Ethics & Society: projects on managing the effects of AI on economies, societies and power structures.

Policy Projects

Philosophy for Safe AI

Philosophy for Safe AI projects use tools and concepts from academic philosophy to inform our approach to advanced AI.

In the next few months, we will work on:

Technical AI Safety: projects in LLM reward-seeking behaviour, definitions of cooperative artificial intelligence, and LLM interpretability. 

Philosophical Fundamentals of AI Safety: projects in conceptual approaches to coexistence with advanced AI,  and how AI agents make decisions under uncertainty.

Philosophy Projects

AI Sentience

AI Sentience projects combine research and philosophy to investigate ethical theories and consciousness models including the welfare of artificial agents.

In the next few months, we will work on:

Governance of AI Sentience: projects in research ethics and best practices for AI welfare, constructing reliable welfare evaluations, and more.

Foundational AI Sentience Research: projects in models of consciousness, eliciting preferences from LLMs, individuating digital minds and evaluating normative competence.

Sentience Projects

    • Recruit for project leads. We invite experienced researchers to become project leads and help them find research associates to work with.

    • Give research associates opportunities. We accept project-specific applications from a wide variety of early-to-mid-career candidates to determine their fit for specific projects as part-time, remote-first research associates.

    • Provide continuous, impact-focused support. We check in regularly over twelve weeks, providing active support with building career capital for our research associates, accelerating impactful work for our project leads, and fostering strong professional networks for both.

  • We’re concerned by the risks posed by transformative AI systems. We believe there is important work to be done right now on AI Policy, Philosophy for Safe AI and AI Sentience.

    We think there are talented people who can make a difference but can’t access full-time, in-person opportunities. So we help them do it part-time and remote-first.

    We’re proud of the work we have done so far and we know there’s so much more to do.

    • Build your career capital to find an impactful role. Some of our previous participants now work at OpenAI, the UK’s Department for Science & Technology, the UN's Envoy on Technology, and the Centre for the Governance of AI.

    • Accelerate and apply your work. FIG projects are usually directly relevant to key decision-makers at important institutions. Research associates have increased the positive impact of ML academics at top universities, national governments / international organisations, AI companies such as DeepMind, and other policy and industry practitioners looking to mitigate the risks posed by AI. 

    • Enjoy the network effects of new professional relationships. Previous FIG research associates have started biosecurity research groups and previous FIG project leads have expanded the AI governance community to include former policymakers who can offer new insights.

Supporting you through your journey to impact.

Fellowship
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Our Results

  • "FIG was truly a transformative experience for me. The opportunity to do research right at the frontier of AI governance, with an experienced mentor, was extremely powerful"

    Liam Patell
    FIG Fellow (Spring 2025)
    Then     GovAI (and Project Lead)

  • "My FIG experience was a 10/10. Everyone - from mentors and directors to other fellows - was kind and helpful. I found a flourishing intellectual environment with no anxiety or pressure, just an incredible pool of talented people."

    Valen Tagliabue
    FIG Fellow (Spring 2025)
    Then Independent Researcher

  • "My FIG Fellowship project helped advance my research career, and the FIG community helped clarify and support my future path."

    Emmie Hine
    FIG Fellow (Spring 2025)
    Then AI Governance & Policy Researcher at Yale

  • "FIG is a remarkable community of researchers which been extremely helpful in advancing my academic and professional work in AI."

    Julian Jacobs
    Project Lead (Fall 2024)
    Then Google DeepMind

  • "The FIG experience—understanding transparent, evidence-based reasoning and having a strong portfolio piece—made a major difference to my job applications."

    Micaella Rogers
    FIG Fellow (2023-24)
    Then Joined Ambitious Impact's Charity Incubation Program

  • "Coauthoring a paper and building a relationship with a senior academic at Oxford were invaluable for finding positions at Oxford and GovAI."

    Charles Martinet
    FIG Fellow (2023-24)
    Then Head of Policy at CeSIA & Research Affiliate, Oxford Martin School

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