
Future of Life Institute (FLI)
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Independent non-profit reducing extreme, large-scale risks from transformative technologies.
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AI Safety Argumentation Research Engineer
Future of Life Institute (FLI)Independent non-profit reducing extreme, large-scale risks from transformative technologies.
• Extend ontologies and knowledge graph schemas representing claims, evidence, argument structures, defeaters, and confidence • Implement defeasible argumentation frameworks (e.g., ASPIC+, Dung-style, argumentation schemes) that capture both logical structure and vulnerability to rebuttal • Operate and quality-control LLM-driven population pipelines, with cross-check scaffolds, provenance tracking, and human-in-the-loop curation • Architect agent coordination patterns for multi-step research and population tasks, with robust error handling and graceful degradation • Pre-harden argument structures by mapping the strongest counterarguments, steel-manned objections, and known defeaters • Build export pipelines that translate structured argumentation into diverse communications formats across audiences and registers • Maintain current awareness across AI safety, capabilities, and governance sufficient to know when new developments require graph updates, and to know where to find authoritative further detail • Collaborate with communications staff and researchers to ensure outputs serve real persuasive needs
Director of Legal Research – Emergency Preparedness, Civil Defense
Future of Life Institute (FLI)Independent non-profit reducing extreme, large-scale risks from transformative technologies.
• Lead legal research on possible U.S. federal and state-level policy interventions supporting public safety, security, and wellbeing for scenarios of highly multipolar AGI run amok • Research on underutilized authorities, opportunities for better communication and response, and for legal loopholes that may be filled by an action of an executive agency • Work closely with the Public Security Policy program lead to craft creative holistic solutions to projected catastrophic issues regarding public health and safety, civil rights, human rights, national security, global security, emergency preparedness, emergency management, economic stability, infrastructure security, and novel threat profiles. • Help craft holistic solution recommendations for prevention, mitigation, and/or responses to a variety of projected novel crises • Research realpolitik and judicial dynamics regarding prospective interventions
Communications Associate
Future of Life Institute (FLI)Independent non-profit reducing extreme, large-scale risks from transformative technologies.
• Support our robust media relations apparatus. You'll craft press releases that actually get read, pitch stories that land, and become reporters' favorite person to hear from. This will probably be about 30% of your time. • Help take our social media presence to the next level, dreaming up posts that stop the scroll, keeping our content calendar humming, and jumping on trends before they're over. This will be about 30% of your time. • Be the glue that holds our communications operation together, partnering with designers to bring ideas to life, keeping our internal systems from descending into chaos, making sure nothing falls through the cracks, and generally being the person who makes everyone else's job easier. This will be about 30% of your time. • Take the lead on exciting earned media initiatives, support the policy team's public communications work, and generally help FLI keep the future human. This is the 'other duties as assigned' part, which will be about 10% of your time.
Operations Team Member
Future of Life Institute (FLI)Independent non-profit reducing extreme, large-scale risks from transformative technologies.
• Review and negotiate contracts • Manage relationships with external legal counsel • Ensure organizational compliance with nonprofit regulations and reporting requirements in the many jurisdictions we operate in • Plan and execute our bi-annual staff retreat, including venue selection, catering, and agenda support to ensure our team is able to strategize at their best • Jump in to help the wider team in whatever way is most needed