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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

• Source and develop ambitious ideas to build a flourishing future grounded in realistic AI and technology scenarios • Apply expertise, insight, networks, and skills to shape projects and nascent organisations • Maintain and improve FLF’s situational awareness and scenario foresight, especially regarding AI and society • Surface impactful trends, scenarios, and important arenas for FLF’s attention • Collaborate with external partners and contacts on priorities and potential collaborations • Anticipate civilisational vulnerabilities, disruptions, and opportunities for positive change • Collect or generate intervention ideas and investigate their feasibility, challenges, and downside risks • Research related efforts and synthesise learnings • Develop sociotechnological designs and roadmaps for technologies, institutions, organisations, or initiatives • Estimate the relative promise of proposals at different stages of readiness • Work with project development staff and founders to take roadmaps from concept to launch • Advise nascent projects and organisations with domain expertise, critique, and connections • Evaluate projects and inform decisions to continue, expand, or redirect • Deliver workshops, presentations, and reports • Contribute to recruitment through direct search, RFPs, job descriptions, reviewing, and interviewing • Interact with fellows and founders to inspire, brainstorm, and refine ideas • Contribute to tooling, especially AI workflows

🎯 Requirements

• Demonstrated willingness and ability to seriously consider a range of scenarios and risks from AI • Proven ability to perform high-quality research, preferably in AI, existential risk, or a relevant domain (political science, systems safety, economics, law, …) • Strong analytical, critical-thinking, communication, and problem-solving skills • Passion for helping to further AI safety • High-quality writing ability is a possible qualification • Familiarity with government and/or national security and adjacent thinktanks or suppliers is a possible qualification • Experience developing and distributing software and AI applications is a possible qualification • Experience with the founding of new organizations is a possible qualification • Significant research achievement demonstrated by publications in top-tier conferences and journals coupled with years of pertinent academic experience is a possible qualification • Track record of impactful grantmaking is a possible qualification • History of performing technical research beyond AI safety is a possible qualification • Particularly strong technical background is a possible qualification

🏖️ Benefits

• Compensation is competitive with Bay Area tech roles (excluding equity) • Full benefits • US visa sponsorship may be available for those who need it • Meet in person several times per year in varied locations

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