Are you interested in doing a PhD or Masters on something altruistic?
The MIT Media Lab has a new
fellowship funded by the
FTX
Future Fund for âambitiously benevolent projects that could not be
accomplished anywhere elseâ. They give some examples:
creating works that expand our moral circle,
designing to cultivate wisdom,
developing new technologies to promote or safeguard wellbeing, or
directly improving the lives of current beings in ways
anticipated to benefit future generations
If youâre interested you would apply for admission to the MIT Media
Lab for Fall 2023 (details) and
also to the fellowship (details),
deadline 2022-12-01. If accepted to both, the fellowship would cover
your tuition and health insurance, pay you a stipend (~$45k/ây),
and cover $25k/ây in additional research costs.
While the application requires you to say which research groups youâre
interested in joining, what it doesnât make clear is that this is,
unusually for the US, a direct-admission system: each faculty member
chooses individually who they would like to admit. This means
itâs definitely worth reaching out specifically to someone whose group
youâre interested in joining (though they may not respondâthey
get tons of email) and also thinking carefully about how your research
interests intersect.
Unlike many programs, you can work on a very wide range
of things: art, science, engineering, law, governance, economics, etc,
and research that would be hard to do in a more traditional graduate
program is especially welcome. If you have questions about what the
Media Lab is like Iâm happy to try to answer, though Iâve only been
here a few months.
(Disclosure: I work
at the NAO which is part
of Kevin Esveltâs Sculpting Evolution
group at the Media Lab, and Kevin asked if I might want to write
something about this opportunity.)
Consider Applying to the Future Fellowship at MIT
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Update 2022-11-11: given the collapse of FTX and the resignation of the FTX Future Fund team this fellowship does not look like itâs happening.
Are you interested in doing a PhD or Masters on something altruistic? The MIT Media Lab has a new fellowship funded by the FTX Future Fund for âambitiously benevolent projects that could not be accomplished anywhere elseâ. They give some examples:
If youâre interested you would apply for admission to the MIT Media Lab for Fall 2023 (details) and also to the fellowship (details), deadline 2022-12-01. If accepted to both, the fellowship would cover your tuition and health insurance, pay you a stipend (~$45k/ây), and cover $25k/ây in additional research costs.
While the application requires you to say which research groups youâre interested in joining, what it doesnât make clear is that this is, unusually for the US, a direct-admission system: each faculty member chooses individually who they would like to admit. This means itâs definitely worth reaching out specifically to someone whose group youâre interested in joining (though they may not respondâthey get tons of email) and also thinking carefully about how your research interests intersect.
Unlike many programs, you can work on a very wide range of things: art, science, engineering, law, governance, economics, etc, and research that would be hard to do in a more traditional graduate program is especially welcome. If you have questions about what the Media Lab is like Iâm happy to try to answer, though Iâve only been here a few months.
(Disclosure: I work at the NAO which is part of Kevin Esveltâs Sculpting Evolution group at the Media Lab, and Kevin asked if I might want to write something about this opportunity.)
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