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Curated readings, courses, and tools for getting into AI safety.

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Podcasts

  • 80,000 Hours Podcast

    In-depth interviews on the world's most pressing problems, including AI safety, and how to build a career addressing them.

  • Dwarkesh Patel (YouTube)

    Long-form interviews with AI researchers and other thinkers on where the technology is headed.

  • The Cognitive Revolution

    Conversations with AI builders and researchers on the frontier of the field and what it means for the world.

Research fellowships + other opportunities

  • AI Safety Opportunities

    An auto-updating board of AI safety jobs, fellowships, grants, events, and courses.

  • SPAR (Supervised Program for Alignment Research)

    A part-time, remote research program pairing aspiring researchers with AI safety and governance mentors.

  • Pivotal Research Fellowship

    A fully-funded, 9-week London fellowship for research in AI safety, AI governance, and biosecurity.

  • ERA Fellowship

    A fully-funded Cambridge fellowship for researchers and entrepreneurs working to understand and reduce risks from frontier AI.

  • Horizon Fellowship

    Places fully-funded fellows with emerging-tech expertise in US federal agencies, congressional offices, and think tanks.

  • LASR Labs

    A 13-week, London-based technical AI safety research programme, working in small mentored teams.

  • CBAI AI Safety Research Fellowship

    A fully-funded Cambridge/Boston research fellowship covering interpretability, governance, and other AI safety topics.

  • Tarbell Fellowship

    A funded fellowship placing journalists in newsrooms to strengthen reporting on AI.

  • Anthropic Fellows Program

    A paid, four-month program for researchers and engineers to work on AI safety projects alongside Anthropic's research teams.

  • OpenAI Safety Fellowship

    A funded program for external researchers to pursue rigorous research on the safety and alignment of advanced AI systems.

  • ILIAD Intensive

    A four-week, in-person course on theoretical approaches to AI alignment, for those with a strong math background.

Careers

  • AI Safety Careers

    A curated job board for roles in AI safety, spanning technical, policy, and operations work.

  • 80,000 Hours Job Board

    A job board of high-impact roles, including many in AI safety, vetted for their potential to do good.