Job description
Coefficient Giving's Global Catastrophic Risks (GCR) division - including our work on navigating transformative AI https://coefficientgiving.org/funds/navigating-transformative-ai/ and reducing catastrophic biorisk https://coefficientgiving.org/funds/biosecurity-pandemic-preparedness/ - is on track to spend well over $1 billion in 2026, and might we expect this figure to grow significantly in future years. Timelines to transformative AI seem shorter than they did a few years ago, and we may have only a few remaining years to make a difference. At the same time, the amount of philanthropic capital available for helping with the transition to transformative AI looks much larger https://nanransohoff.substack.com/p/the-third-wave-of-american-philanthropy. The situation is changing rapidly, and we'll have to make many high-stakes decisions in the coming years. To ensure we make those decisions well, we need the support of exceptional researchers to improve our strategy, identify cruxes, model possible AI trajectories, and assess different interventions to avert global catastrophic risk and improve the long-run future.
THE TEAMS We're hiring for senior research roles across the GCR Central team (led by Emily Oehlsen) and the Short Timelines Special Projects team (led by Claire Zabel). We're open to a wide range of experience levels, and the title and shape of the role will be tailored to the successful candidate. We're particularly excited about candidates who could manage others and lead a focused research team, in addition to doing research themselves.
CENTRAL Emily Oehlsen https://coefficientgiving.org/team/emily-oehlsen/ and George Rosenfeld https://coefficientgiving.org/team/george-rosenfeld/ lead Coefficient Giving's GCR division and the teams within it: AI Governance and Policy, Technical AI Safety, GCR Capacity Building, Short Timelines Special Projects, and Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness. We set the GCR division's high-level strategy, manage the
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