šØ AI Governance Taskforce Summer 2026 applications are open ā deadline 10th May.
For senior or mid-career professionals transitioning into AI governance, focused on mitigating catastrophic risk.
This 12-week remote part-time opportunity is designed for experienced professionals who want to apply existing domain expertise to frontier AI governance, addressing acute and systemic catastrophic risks. You will work in small, high-calibre, multidisciplinary research teams producing policy-relevant research, led by Research Team Leaders and guided by expert practitioners based at respected organisations.
Projects and experts:
š¹ Building anticipatory capacity: frontier AI risk scenario frameworks for government
Elizabeth Dearden-Williams (UK AISI)
š¹ A playbook for corporate management of frontier AI incident knowledge under legal constraint
Sean McGregor (AI Incident Database)
š¹ Opportunities for advancing red lines by country ā middle powers legislation
Caio Machado (The Future Society)
š¹ No treaty or weak treaty: Trade-offs between pathways to an international AI governance agreement
JosƩ Villalobos (The Future of Life Institute)
š¹ Testing and Evaluation of Agentic AI Systems in Military Command and Control
Heather Frase (Virginia Tech National Security Institute)
š¹ āIf Anyone Builds It, Everyone Needs to Understand Itā ā Understanding as a product of frontier AI safety review ā building shared comprehension for collective governance
Professor Robin Bloomfield (City University, University of London)
What this involves:
š„ Applied research in small teams
š Policy-relevant outputs (papers, briefs)
š Fully remote, global, part-time (8 hrs/week), 12 weeks
š¼ Selective, unpaid research fellowship
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Deadline: Sun 10 May 2026
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Cohort dates: 1 June - 21 August 2026
š More info and apply: https://www.arcadiaimpact.org/ai-governance-taskforce
For queries, please email:
Ben R Smith, Taskforce Lead
ben [at] arcadiaimpact [dot] org
