Why are you specifically hiring postdoctoral candidates only? Do you believe that having a PhD is typically necessary for strong research skills? Just looking at AI safety since that’s what these positions focus on, MIRI has researchers without graduate degrees and FLI made some grants to non-PhDs; so it’s non-obvious that PhDs matter much here.
Hiring post docs only substantially limits your hiring pool, so I’m curious why you have this restriction.
Why are you specifically hiring postdoctoral candidates only? Do you believe that having a PhD is typically necessary for strong research skills? Just looking at AI safety since that’s what these positions focus on, MIRI has researchers without graduate degrees and FLI made some grants to non-PhDs; so it’s non-obvious that PhDs matter much here.
Hiring post docs only substantially limits your hiring pool, so I’m curious why you have this restriction.
We do hire people without PhDs—appropriate edits done :)