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The program

The AI Futures Fellowship supports exceptional and impact-minded early-career individuals by providing an outstanding platform to learn and work on questions of advanced AI.

For eight weeks, fellows will join the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in Mexico City and have the opportunity to interact with a rich intellectual community of AI researchers visiting Mexico City in January and February 2024 from various institutions, including Harvard University, Oxford University, Cambridge University, Center for the Governance of AI, Legal Priorities Project, and OpenAI.

Fellows will pursue a project agreed upon with their mentor at the beginning of the program. We expect to tailor the mentor experience to each fellow's projects and will do our best to get fellows the feedback they need. We generally expect fellows to produce a research report on a specific problem in various AI (sub-)fields, but we are open to multiple outputs. For example, fellows may also focus on learning more about a particular topic in AI, such as interpretability research, global race dynamics, or compute governance. Fellows may also collaborate with other participants or experts of the program.

There will be weekly meetings, seminars, and Q&As with leading experts in the field.

Candidates

We are looking for early-career individuals and students from all over the world . We expect most participants to be at the late undergraduate, Master, Ph.D., and postdoctoral levels, but other exceptional candidates are also welcome.

For our first cohort, we are particularly interested in applicants aiming to explore catastrophic and existential risks from AI . While we expect candidates to apply their research skills and knowledge to issues of advanced AI, they are not required to have previous technical experience or expertise in machine learning or AI.

In addition to a strong motivation to engage with global risks from AI, the ideal candidate will have the following strengths:

Ability to carry out self-directed research with limited supervision
Excellent written communication skills
Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills

If you are hesitant to apply due to concerns about your qualifications or fit for the position, we encourage you to still submit an application.

AI futures Fellowship