Arcadia Impact is currently accepting applications for its AI Governance Taskforce 2026. Interested applicants are encouraged to click here to learn more about this opportunity and apply for it.
About Arcadia Impact - AI Governance Taskforce
The AI Governance Taskforce is a 12 week, remote (global), part-time (8 hrs/wk) research programme for experienced professionals working to reduce catastrophic risks, acute and systemic, from advanced AI through policy and governance research. The programme is designed to be compatible with existing commitments.
Benefits of Arcadia Impact - AI Governance Taskforce
- Offers: Successful candidates are offered a place on a specific project team.
Arcadia Impact - AI Governance Taskforce Requirements
- They look for highly motivated candidates who are driven to transition from established careers into frontier AI governance focused on reducing catastrophic risks, acute and systemic, from advanced AI.
- They are interested in candidates from a range of backgrounds, disciplines and experience levels, including law, public policy, economics, other social science and humanities, management, political science, international relations, engineering (of various kinds, e.g. ML, software, mechanical, systems, safety), philosophy and computer science that can be brought to bear with direct or indirect relevance to our projects.
Requirements
- Committed to a career reducing catastrophic and systemic risks from frontier AI. This programme is not about general AI risk, corporate AI compliance & AI ethics.
- Able to commit at least 8 hours per week across the cohort dates, alongside your existing commitments
- Willing to work in a small, structured, remote research team of four alongside a Research Team Leader and an expert partner
Application Date and Process
For the Autumn 2026 cohort the process has three stages.No writing sample is required at any stage.
- General application. Your CV and short written answers. We assess your motivation and readiness to move into the field, your situational awareness of frontier AI risk, your judgement about priorities and interventions, how your existing expertise transfers, your self-direction, and the clarity of your reasoning.
- Project application. Shortlisted candidates are given project briefs, and invited to apply to the projects that fit them best, completing a short written task related to their chosen project.
- Interview. A remote interview to get to know you, and expand on aspects of your application.
Application Deadline
31 August, 2026
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