To help with the talent pipeline, GovAI currently runs twice-a-year three-month fellowships. We’ve also started offering one-year Research Scholar positions. We’re also now experimenting with a new policy program. Supporting the AI governance talent pipeline is one of our key priorities as an organization.
That being said, we’re very very far from filling the community’s needs in this regard. We’re currently getting far more strong applications than we have open slots. (I believe our acceptance rate for the Summer Fellowship is something like 5% and will probably keep getting lower. We now need to reject people who actually seem really promising.) We’d like to scale our programs up more, but even then there will still be an enormous unmet need. I would definitely welcome more programs in this space!
I was very glad to see the research scholar pathway open up, it seems exactly right for someone like me (advanced early career, is that a stable segment?).
I’m also glad to hear of the interest too, although it’s too bad that the acceptance rate is lower than ideal. Then again, to many folks coming from academic grant funding ecosystems, 5% is fairly typical, for major funding in my fields at least.
To help with the talent pipeline, GovAI currently runs twice-a-year three-month fellowships. We’ve also started offering one-year Research Scholar positions. We’re also now experimenting with a new policy program. Supporting the AI governance talent pipeline is one of our key priorities as an organization.
That being said, we’re very very far from filling the community’s needs in this regard. We’re currently getting far more strong applications than we have open slots. (I believe our acceptance rate for the Summer Fellowship is something like 5% and will probably keep getting lower. We now need to reject people who actually seem really promising.) We’d like to scale our programs up more, but even then there will still be an enormous unmet need. I would definitely welcome more programs in this space!
I would also strongly recommend having a version of the fellowship that aligns with US university schedules, unlike the current Summer fellowship!
I was very glad to see the research scholar pathway open up, it seems exactly right for someone like me (advanced early career, is that a stable segment?).
I’m also glad to hear of the interest too, although it’s too bad that the acceptance rate is lower than ideal. Then again, to many folks coming from academic grant funding ecosystems, 5% is fairly typical, for major funding in my fields at least.