Name of the Event: GovAI Winter Fellowship 2025
Place: Oxford, UK
Mode: In person
Last Date of Application: 11 August 2024
Link to Apply:
About the Fellowship:
Summer and Winter Fellows join GovAI to conduct independent research on a topic of their choice, with mentorship from leading experts in the field of AI governance. Fellows will also join Q&A sessions with AI governance experts, research seminars, and researcher work-in-progress meetings. Each Fellow will be paired with a supervisor from the GovAI team or affiliate network.
Qualifications and Selection Criteria:
You should apply if you have an interest in their work and are considering using your career to study or shape the long-term implications of advanced AI.
Given the multidisciplinary nature of their work, they are interested in candidates from a broad set of disciplines including political science, public policy, history, economics, sociology, law, philosophy, and computer science. There are no specific educational requirements for the role, although they expect that the most promising candidates will typically have relevant graduate study or research experience in related areas.
Quality of work: The ability to produce written, insightful, and even-handed research.
Relevant expertise: Skills or knowledge that are likely to be helpful for work on AI governance.
Judgement: The ability to prioritise 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.
Salary, Duration, and Location:
Summer and Winter Fellowships last for three months, and Fellows will receive a stipend of £9,000, plus support for travelling to Oxford. While in Oxford, they provide the Fellows with lunch on weekdays and a desk in the office. This is intended to be a full-time and in-person role, based in Oxford, UK. They can also 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.
Winter Fellows will join for three months, between January and April (precise dates TBC).
We are not the official organisers of the program. If you have any queries regarding it, kindly contact the organisers at – recruitment@governance.ai
