Director of Legal Research – Emergency Preparedness, Civil Defense

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🕒 April 1

🏛️ District of Columbia, Washington – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $140k - $180k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Future of Life Institute (FLI)

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2014

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🧬 Biotechnology

🤝 Non-profit

💰 $482.5k Grant on 2021-11

Artificial Intelligence • Biotechnology • Non-profit

Future of Life Institute (FLI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to steering transformative technologies, such as artificial intelligence and biotechnology, towards benefiting life and minimizing large-scale risks. The Institute focuses on cause areas like artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and nuclear weapons, advocating for policy changes and public awareness to mitigate associated risks. FLI engages in policy advocacy, outreach, grantmaking, and hosting events to discuss safe development and governance of these technologies. It collaborates internationally with entities like the United Nations and the European Union to ensure that powerful technologies are harnessed for positive future outcomes.

📋 Description

• Lead legal research on possible U.S. federal and state-level policy interventions supporting public safety, security, and wellbeing for scenarios of highly multipolar AGI run amok • Research on underutilized authorities, opportunities for better communication and response, and for legal loopholes that may be filled by an action of an executive agency • Work closely with the Public Security Policy program lead to craft creative holistic solutions to projected catastrophic issues regarding public health and safety, civil rights, human rights, national security, global security, emergency preparedness, emergency management, economic stability, infrastructure security, and novel threat profiles. • Help craft holistic solution recommendations for prevention, mitigation, and/or responses to a variety of projected novel crises • Research realpolitik and judicial dynamics regarding prospective interventions

🎯 Requirements

• A J.D. plus 3+ years of relevant experience in law, policy research, bill craft, or engagement, or a masters' in a relevant field plus 5+ years legal research experience • Proficient in recent advancements in legal research information technologies • Experience in some mix of the following: Federal policymaking apparatuses, Judicial dynamics, Policy research, State-level policymaking apparatuses, Policy analysis, Policy strategy, Lobbying familiarity, Drafting EO or bill language • Experience in some mix of the following: Security mindset, Catastrophic risk policy, Emergency preparedness, Crisis management, CBRN+C, Natsec complex familiarity, IC mindset on unknown unknowns, Strategic thinking, Multiphase multiprong strategies, Public safety, Public order, AI governance, AI safety strategy, Game theory, Criminology, Counter-terrorism, Futures studies, or Foresight methods • Experience working on, tracking, and successfully completing multiple concurrent tasks to meet deadlines with little supervision.

🏖️ Benefits

• Salary plus good benefits