Centre for the Governance of AI is inviting applications from the eligible candidate for its Winter Fellowship 2025. The fellowship is for candidates who are strongly considering using their careers to study or shape the long-term implications of AI.
About the Winter Fellowship 2025
Summer and Winter Fellowships provide an opportunity for early-career individuals or established professionals new to the field of AI governance to spend three months working on an AI governance research project, learning about the field, and making connections with other researchers and practitioners.
About the Team
GovAI’s mission is to help humanity navigate the transition to a world with advanced AI. Our world-class research has helped shape the nascent field of AI governance. Our team and affiliate community possess expertise in a wide variety of domains, including US-China relations, arms race dynamics, EU policy, and AI progress forecasting.
Duration- 3 Months
Fellowship Experience
First Week- In the first or 2 week of the fellowship, fellows will spend this time period in exploring research topic options before setting on a research proposal with input from your mentors.
Valerie Belu, GovAI’s Research Management Associate, will support you in deciding what project and output will be most valuable for you to work towards, for example, publishing a report, journal article, or blog post.
You will also take time to explore the wider AI governance space and discuss follow-on career opportunities in the field of AI governance with our team.
If you are an experienced professional or established academic considering transitioning into the field of AI governance, we might be open to tailoring the fellowship experience to your needs. This could include only attending parts of the fellowship or teaching buy-outs, if necessary. Please reach out to our Research Management Associate Valerie Belu (valerie.belu@governance.ai) if you would like to discuss specifics before applying.
Qualifications
- Candidates from a broad set of disciplines including political science, public policy, history, economics, sociology, law, philosophy, and computer science.
- Researchers with strong technical backgrounds.
- No specific educational requirements for the role
Applications are assessed on following
Quality of work: The ability to produce clearly written, insightful, and even-handed research. We are particularly excited about strong reasoning ability and clear and concise writing.
Relevant expertise: Skills or knowledge that are likely to be helpful for work on AI governance. We think that relevant expertise can take many different forms. Note that we also do not have any strict degree requirements.
Judgement: The ability to prioritize between different research directions, and good intuitions about the feasibility of different research directions.
Team fit: Openness to feedback, commitment to intellectual honesty and rigour, comfort in expressing uncertainty, and a serious interest in using your career to contribute to AI governance.
Fellowship Stipend
The Winter Fellowship 2025 stipend will be £9000 including support for travelling to Oxford.
Location
Oxford, UK
While in Oxford, we provide our Fellows with lunch on weekdays and a desk in our office. This is intended to be a full-time and in-person role, based in Oxford, UK. We are able to sponsor visas. For successful applicants who require a visa, note that you will need to remain in your country of visa application for some time while the visa application is underway.
Application Rounds
- First Round- Written Submission
- Second Round- Remote Work Test
- Final Round- Interview
Application Procedure
We expect to reach out to Winter Fellowship candidates for paid work tests in August, offer interviews in September, and communicate final decisions to candidates in October. Please feel free to reach out to recruitment@governance.ai if you would need a decision communicated earlier than the standard timeline (this may or may not be possible), or have questions about the application process.
