€5,000 AI Safety Research Fellowship
- Organization: Odyssean Institute
- Type: Fellowship
- Location: Global
- Deadline: September 11, 2026
- Funding: Fully Funded
The Odyssean Institute, a UK research charity working on AI and other catastrophic risks, is recruiting three researchers for the first cohort of its research fellowship. Over three months you will help build a method for turning what AI safety experts believe into causal models other people can inspect and argue with, using LLMs to code expert testimony and systems modelling to map it. The work is remote, paid, and published openly as an open-source project. **What you get:** - A stipend of 5,000 euros for the three-month engagement - A place in the inaugural cohort of three fellows, shaping a new programme from the ground up - Remote working, with the option of hybrid collaboration if you are in the UK or the USA - Named contributions of code, documentation and methodology write-ups to an open-source repository - Research discussions with a transdisciplinary team whose backgrounds include Oxford, Cambridge, the Australian National University, the National University of Singapore and Goldsmiths **What you'll do:** - Develop and refine LLM-assisted pipelines for thematic coding of qualitative expert data - Extract the causal variables and hypothesised relationships experts see in how AI safety unfolds - Build, iterate on and document causal loop diagrams and, where appropriate, stock-and-flow models - Contribute code, documentation and methodology write-ups to an open-source repository - Help design and support expert elicitation sessions and workshops where relevant - Submit a weekly timesheet tracking hours and progress **Key dates:** - Applications close 11 September 2026 - Fellowship starts 14 September 2026 - Three-month engagement at 20 hours per week or more **More information:** - Apply by sending a single PDF to operations@odysseaninstitute.org and contact@odysseaninstitute.org. There is no application form - The application asks for three things: a one-page sketch of a first small experiment on one of the four fellowship tasks, evidence of previous thematic or qualitative coding work with a note on your specific role, and a few paragraphs on how you would explore a causal loop diagram under deep uncertainty - The Institute asks applicants to limit AI use to review and grammatical edits, and says honest partial answers are welcome because it is reading for judgment rather than polish - The Odyssean Institute is a registered UK Charitable Incorporated Organisation, charity number 1204794
