Currently 26 active fellowships open to applicants in the US, across AI, arts, film, journalism, research, tech and cross-disciplinary practice. Hand-curated and updated weekly. Almost every entry is funded; a few notable unpaid open calls and festival submissions are included as clearly flagged exceptions. Browse the list below, or use the interactive desk for filtering and shortlisting.
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The Princeton Arts Fellowship places early-career artists at the Lewis Center for the Arts for two academic years on a full-time salaried appointment, on the conviction that exposure to the arts helps us make sense of our lives and the lives of our neighbours. ELIGIBLE APPLICANTS are early-career composers, conductors, musicians, choreographers, playwrights, designers, directors and performance artists. IMPORTANT FOR THIS CYCLE: applications are accepted only for the Program in Dance, the Program in Theater and Music Theater, and the Department of Music. Fellows typically teach one undergraduate course per semester (subject to approval by the Office of the Dean of the Faculty), or in some cases take on an artistic assignment with students in lieu of a class; prior teaching experience is NOT required. Beyond that, fellows are expected to engage with the Princeton community through advising students, talks, workshops, exhibitions or other events, and have time to pursue their own artistic practice and scholarly research. NOT ELIGIBLE: the appointment cannot be used to fund work leading to a PhD or any advanced degree; holders of Princeton PhDs cannot apply; past recipients of the Hodder Fellowship cannot apply; and anyone with a sustained and continuous relationship with Princeton is excluded (an occasional and sporadic relationship is fine). Fellows may not hold concurrent teaching positions at other institutions during the appointment. You may apply once per application cycle. APPLICATION via Interfolio: a CV; a 750-word proposal broken into how you would use the fellowship to develop your work (250 words), what you might teach or pursue with undergraduates (250 words), and your approach to building community with people of different backgrounds, experiences, perspectives and artistic practices through your practice, teaching and/or research (250 words); contact information for one reference; and work samples with a 150-word statement on how they relate to your proposal, submitted as links in a PDF. WORK SAMPLE SPECS: Dance (choreography), one to three links to performances, rehearsals or research, continuous footage only, no trailers, photographs or promotional material, with cue points of no more than 3 to 4 minutes per link and no more than 10 minutes total. Music, one to two scores and/or links to performance examples totalling 10 minutes, video optional. Theater, up to 15 pages of writing sample and/or up to 10 design images (photos or renderings) and/or a video or audio reel with cue points, no more than 10 minutes to watch. The deadline is 8 September 2026 at 11:59 pm EDT; receipt of applications cannot be confirmed and late applications are not accepted. FAQ and examples of building community in artistic practice, teaching and research: arts.princeton.edu/fellowships/faq.
The Hodder Fellowship is given to artists and writers of exceptional promise to pursue independent projects at Princeton University during the academic year. Potential Hodder Fellows are composers, choreographers, performance artists, visual artists, writers, translators, or other kinds of artists or humanists who have 'much more than ordinary intellectual and literary gifts'; they are selected more 'for promise than for performance.' Given the strength of the applicant pool, most successful Fellows have published a first book or have similar achievements in their own fields; the Hodder is designed to provide Fellows with the 'studious leisure' to undertake significant new work. Fellows spend an academic year at Princeton with no formal teaching, supported by a USD 93,000 stipend for the 10-month Visiting Fellow appointment. IMPORTANT: for this cycle, applications are accepted only for the Program in Dance, the Program in Theater and Music Theater, the Program in Visual Arts, and the Department of Music. Fellowships are not intended to fund work leading to an advanced degree; one need not be a U.S. citizen to apply; previous recipients of the Princeton Arts Fellowship are not eligible. To apply, submit a resume, a 500-word project proposal, and samples of your work (writing sample, images, video links to performances, etc.). Applicants may apply for the Hodder Fellowship only twice in a lifetime. Applications are submitted via Interfolio. The application cycle closes 8 September 2026 at 11:59 p.m. EDT.
New_ Public is piloting a virtual Entrepreneur in Residence programme for solo founders building alternatives to the mainstream social platforms. Its framing: people are turning away from algorithmic social media, AI bots are taking over the big platforms, and users are retreating into private closed spaces, which leaves an opening for builders working on a new information ecosystem rather than the status quo. The residency supplies research, experts, connections and tools; the founder brings the vision and experience. TWO FOCUS AREAS: humans connecting to humans, meaning products that bring people into meaningful contact online (forums, messaging apps, groups, microblogging, in-person meetups), including AI-powered platforms and tools as long as they connect people to people rather than people to bots; and local and civic information environments, meaning tools for distributing local news, building community knowledge and facilitating collective sensemaking, so people can get trustworthy information about their communities. WHAT RESIDENTS DO: use self-directed time to prototype ideas, test assumptions and gain clarity; participate in regular check-ins, engage with the other resident and the wider team, and take candid feedback on product and strategy; engage seriously with go-to-market questions about who the user is, how they find you, and the path to sustainability; and help shape the programme itself, since the pilot cohort's feedback directly informs how the EIR programme runs going forward. WHO THEY WANT: entrepreneurial founders ready to build their next thing within the focus areas, with a track record of or clear drive toward work that builds social trust, connection and belonging; strong product thinkers with good judgment, a relentless focus on user needs, and openness to coaching on mission-aligned business models. An early idea is enough, no working product required. The pilot is open to founders with something else going on alongside, though the full programme will most likely be full time. APPLICATION PROCESS: submit the written application online; shortlisted applicants submit a short video by 18 September 2026 covering background, motivation and a quick pitch; full applications and videos go to the advisory board, with offers made in early October ahead of the kickoff. FUTURE COHORTS: New_ Public plans to open the next cohort to the UK and EU from spring 2027. Deadline 11:59pm Pacific on Wednesday 9 September 2026.
The Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship offers scientists, writers, scholars, public intellectuals, and artists a year to pursue ambitious projects in a vibrant interdisciplinary setting amid the resources of Harvard University. The Institute welcomes innovative work that confronts pressing social, scientific, and policy issues and seeks to engage audiences beyond academia. Reflecting Radcliffe's history, it welcomes (but does not limit eligibility to) proposals focused on women, gender, and society, or that draw on the Schlesinger Library's collections. It also invites proposals relevant to the Institute's 2024-2029 focus area, academic freedom and connecting across difference (intellectual virtues, free and open inquiry, diversity of thought, political polarization, peace and conflict, inequality, religious pluralism, and related higher-education policy issues), including work that constructively challenges disciplinary orthodoxies or advances transformative perspectives. SUPPORT: USD 78,000 stipend plus USD 5,000 for project expenses, with relocation, housing, and childcare funds available; fellows must reside in the Cambridge/Boston area from September through May. ELIGIBILITY: open to individuals across career stages; tenure is not required and applicants need not be academics. This is NOT a postdoctoral fellowship; those currently enrolled in a degree program are ineligible, as are former Harvard Radcliffe fellows (1999-present). Applicants must meet discipline-specific criteria. APPLY: register on the online portal and select an area (Humanities and Social Sciences; Creative Arts; Nonfiction and Journalism; or Science, Engineering, and Mathematics). Materials: application form, CV, 1,400-word project proposal (with bibliography when appropriate), a writing or work sample, and three references. DEADLINES: humanities, social sciences, creative arts, and nonfiction and journalism by 10 September 2026, 5pm ET; science, engineering, and mathematics by 1 October 2026, 5pm ET.
Residency for artists across seven disciplines (architecture, film/video, interdisciplinary, literature, music composition, theatre, visual arts). Sole selection criterion is artistic excellence. Applications open 15 August 2026. February deadline of the following year covers the Fall/Winter cycle.
The inaugural Mycelia Fellowship by Social Resonance Lab, a collaborative research studio exploring how ethical storytelling fosters human connection, selects two practitioners advancing innovative projects at the intersection of ethical storytelling, arts, civic engagement, AI, or the digital landscape. TWO TRACKS: Arts as a Civic Tool (artistic practice for public engagement and social issues) and AI and the Digital Landscape (technology's influence on narratives and collective memory). Fellows receive a USD 2,000 stipend, direct advising and consultancy from the SRL team, a published piece on the SRL Substack, a guest spot on an upcoming ethical storytelling podcast, and co-lead a workshop presenting their work to practitioners and the public. The fellowship strengthens, documents, refines or scales EXISTING projects; do not pitch a completely new idea, and connect your work clearly to ethical storytelling and one of the two tracks. ELIGIBILITY: US residents only (including territories, must be able to file a W-9 and use a US bank account) with an existing project underway, intersectional practice awareness, and strong writing and research skills. Remote, 8 weeks, November to December 2026. No application fee. Deadline: 13 September 2026, 11:59 PM.
The Guggenheim Fellowship is awarded to mid-career individuals who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts, giving them six to twelve months of funded time to work with as much creative freedom as possible. Around 175 to 200 fellows are chosen each year from a field of several thousand applicants (a success rate of roughly five percent), across more than 50 fields spanning the creative arts, the humanities, the natural sciences and the social sciences, including architecture, film, music, photography, fine arts, computer science and interdisciplinary work. ELIGIBILITY: citizens and permanent residents of the United States and Canada; applicants must be mid-career with a significant record of published or exhibited work, and current students and previous Guggenheim Fellows are not eligible. APPLICATION: through the Foundation's own portal, which opens in late summer 2026, so check the site if it is not yet live. The application deadline is 15 September 2026 with no late submissions accepted; work samples are due 29 September 2026 and reference letters 13 October 2026. Results are announced in late April 2027. No fee.
The John W. Kluge Center awards twelve residential fellowships a year for humanistic and social science research that draws on the Library of Congress collections, with interdisciplinary and cross-cultural projects particularly welcome. Fellows get four to eleven months in residence at a stipend of USD 5,000 per month, work and discussion space in the Jefferson Building, and access to the Library's specialist staff, the world's largest law library, extensive multilingual books and periodicals, and deep special collections of manuscripts, maps, music, films, recorded sound, prints and photographs, alongside the wider scholarly community in Washington. The Center was established in 2000 through a USD 60 million endowment from John W. Kluge. ELIGIBILITY: scholars who received a terminal advanced degree (the highest degree available in the discipline, usually a PhD, JD or international equivalent) within the past seven years, in the humanities, social sciences, or a professional field such as architecture or law. The degree must be in hand at the time of submission, and full-time students are therefore out of scope. Open to U.S. citizens and foreign nationals; selected foreign nationals are assisted in obtaining a Library-sponsored J-1 visa, though holders of H-1B visas are not eligible. APPLICATION: through the Library's online portal, opening 15 April 2026 and closing 11:59pm on 15 September 2026. Materials required are an application form in English, a CV (max 2 pages), a 500-word research abstract, a one-page statement on how the Library's collections will serve the work, a project proposal with work plan (max 3 pages), a bibliography (max 3 pages), and two reference letters from referees who have read the proposal. No fee.
The ILIAD Fellowship is a 3-month mentored research fellowship producing concrete outputs in applied-mathematical AI alignment research, distinct from ILIAD's four-week taught Intensive. Fellows work in person in London or the SF Bay Area with a USD 6,000 per month travel-and-housing allowance. ELIGIBILITY: primarily PhD and postdoc researchers in mathematics, theoretical physics, theoretical computer science or related fields, though a degree is not a hard requirement given substantial research experience; limited remote flexibility. DEADLINES: 21 September 2026 for the November cohort (2 November 2026 to 5 February 2027); 19 October 2026 for the December cohort (1 December 2026 to 5 March 2027). A single common application at iliad.ac/apply covers the Fellowship and the Intensive.
The American Academy in Berlin is an independent, nonprofit institute for advanced study in the arts, humanities, social sciences, law, journalism and public policy, whose primary mission is to strengthen the cultural and intellectual ties between the United States and Germany. Each year, after a rigorous selection process, the Academy awards roughly two dozen semester-long Berlin Prize fellowships to individuals who demonstrate excellence in their fields. DISCIPLINES: applications are welcome across the humanities, social sciences, law, journalism and various areas of public policy. The Academy generally encourages projects addressing pressing issues of the day, specifically naming democracy, security, technology and society (especially AI), energy including climate, and global order. Dedicated fellowships also support projects in Jewish studies, German studies, and public health and biotechnology. Project proposals need not focus on Germany, but candidates should explain how a residency in Berlin would enhance their work. NOT ACCEPTED: proposals in mathematics or the natural sciences. NOTE FOR ARTISTS: visual artists and composers are invited through separate, nomination-based competitions, so there is no open application route for them here. ELIGIBILITY: fellowships are restricted to citizens and permanent residents of the United States. Both emerging and established figures are eligible. PhD holders qualify as emerging scholars with a strong record of peer-reviewed work beyond the dissertation; candidates in non-academic fields such as journalism, filmmaking and policy need a significant record of publication or production; fiction and nonfiction writers must have published at least one book with a reputable press. WHAT FELLOWS DO: fellows present their work to audiences in and around Berlin through lectures, readings, public discussions, performances and film screenings, and should be willing to engage with relevant German institutions, organizations and the media; these activities are integral to the Academy's mission of fostering transatlantic dialogue. APPLICATION MATERIALS: a project proposal of 1,500 to 1,750 words plus a one-page bibliography; a curriculum vitae of up to 10 pages; two writing samples totalling no more than 60 pages; and three letters of recommendation, which are due 2 October 2026. DEADLINE: Friday 25 September 2026 at 12:00 noon Eastern Time (18:00 Central European Time). TIMELINE: all candidates are notified of the competition outcome by email in late March 2027; the 2027-28 Berlin Prize recipients are announced in May 2027.
The Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library awards fifteen fellowships a year to writers and scholars (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, playwriting, translation, and academic research) whose projects draw on the Library's collections. Fellows receive USD 90,000, an office, and full research access for a September-May term in residence. Open internationally. Deadline 25 September 2026, 5pm EDT; apply via the NYPL online application portal.
Long-running fellowship for in-depth, investigative written reporting on subjects of public interest, now administered by the Fund for Investigative Journalism after the foundation's December 2025 merger. For seasoned reporters with a body of in-depth written work; freelancers are encouraged and staff journalists may apply if they take leave (part-time work is allowed during the fellowship, full-time is not). Twelve-month fellows produce four articles, six-month fellows two. Decisions by end of 2026. Distinct from FIJ's regular reporting grants. No application fee.
The MATS Residency, announced in August 2026 as a new track alongside the seasonal MATS fellowship, funds 6 to 24 months of high-independence AI safety research for experienced researchers, whether already in AI safety or moving in from adjacent fields. COMPENSATION: USD 155,000 to 285,000 per year gross depending on location, seniority and experience, plus insurance, retirement plan, PTO (17 days US / 20 days UK), conference funding, catered meals, and up to USD 25,000 in relocation support. ELIGIBILITY: at least one substantial piece of research-caliber work; credentials are not required. Full-time (part-time case by case for academics on sabbatical), in person at MATS offices in Berkeley, London, or Washington DC, with visa support where required. TIMELINE: the Winter 2027 intake window runs 25 August to 31 October 2026 (AoE), with decisions by end of November and interviews plus a paid work test in the first week of December; three intake windows per year.
The AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships place scientists and engineers inside US federal agencies, congressional offices and the judicial branch for a year of hands-on policymaking, contributing technical knowledge and analytical skills to the federal policy process. AI, data and computing policy placements are among the largest tracks, and AAAS runs a dedicated AI legislative branch cohort that places AI experts in congressional offices at GS-12 Step 10 on the DC locality scale. ELIGIBILITY: US citizens holding a PhD or equivalent doctoral degree in any science or engineering field, or a master's degree in engineering plus three years of post-degree professional experience; some tracks accept a bachelor's plus five years. Relevant expertise includes AI, machine learning, computer science, robotics and data science. Fellows must reside in DC, Maryland or northern Virginia during the fellowship year. TIMELINE: the application portal opens 1 August 2026 and closes 1 November 2026 at 11:59pm ET, with eligibility notification in late November, interview notification January to February 2027, semi-finalist interviews in March, placement offers by early May, and the fellowship year running 1 September 2027 to 31 August 2028. Apply through fellowshipapp.aaas.org.
The American-Scandinavian Foundation's award program for study and research abroad is its longest-standing commitment to educational exchange: over the past 100 years, more than 4,000 fellowships and grants have gone to Americans working in the Nordic region and Scandinavians in the US engaged in study, research, or creative arts projects. Fellowships for Americans in the Nordic Countries support projects in Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Sapmi. AMOUNTS: long-term fellowships of up to USD 23,000 for 4 to 12 months, and short-term grants of up to USD 5,000 for 1 to 3 months; awards are given in all fields, with graduate students (preferably dissertation-related), academic professionals, and creative artists eligible. In 2026, 31 American Fellows were granted over USD 277,390 in total. REPORTING: fellows abroad more than six months submit an interim report mid-project, and all fellows submit a final narrative report within 60 days of the fellowship period's end. DEADLINE: 1 November 2026 for the 2027-28 cycle. See ASF's Program Guidelines for full requirements and apply via the ASF application portal.
Annual screenwriting fellowship from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) administered through The Black List, awarding $20,000 each to three writers to revise a feature screenplay or pilot that engages with climate change in a compelling way. Submission and selection happen on The Black List platform; applicants should review program eligibility and any associated hosting/submission fees on blcklst.com before applying. Strong fit for narrative writers using fiction to dramatise climate, ecology, energy, or environmental-justice themes (rather than documentary).
Four resident biography fellowships plus the Levy/Sloan Fellowship, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, for a biography of a figure in science or technology; separate Sherwin fellowship for nuclear-age history. Open to writers of all nationalities, with explicit preference for first-time biographers who have not yet held a biography fellowship, though mid-career and senior writers are welcome; independent writers eligible. Fellows join monthly seminars and the center's public events. Apply with CV, career narrative, project description, writing sample and two references (agents, editors and publishers are discouraged as referees). No application fee.
The Institute for Law & AI's US Summer Fellowship is a paid research fellowship at the leading edge of US AI law and policy for law students, professionals, and academics, including the Summer Institute on Law and AI in Washington DC and mentorship from LawAI research staff. FUNDING: USD 2,000 per week, a USD 10,000 relocation/housing stipend for DC-based fellows, covered flights, accommodation and meals for the Convening Week, and potentially higher subsidies for exceptional candidates. ELIGIBILITY: a strong grasp of US legal principles applicable to AI regulation via formal US legal study (incoming 1L and up) or comparable professional experience; full-time commitment 14 June to 20 August 2027; valid US work authorization required (visa sponsorship possible but not guaranteed). The application takes about 20 minutes. DEADLINE: 29 January 2027, 11:59PM ET.
The American Sunlight Project works to ensure that citizens have access to trustworthy sources to inform the choices they make in their daily lives. It is looking for a Free Expression Fellow to produce its regular newsletter on censorship, helping readers stay informed on a rapidly evolving US political landscape. RESPONSIBILITIES: compile and write 'Last Week in Censorship', a clear and engaging newsletter-style roundup of platform policy changes, censorship news and regulatory developments that erode American democracy; and, in support of the organisation's censorship tracker, compile instances from the weekly briefing into a database. IDEAL CANDIDATE: motivated to document instances of democratic backsliding in the United States and happy to take on a part-time nonprofit commitment in service of that goal. The posting explicitly welcomes students, retirees and people looking to moonlight for a good cause. REQUIRED: U.S. citizenship or legal residency; exceptional writing skills with a strong command of tone, clarity and synthesis; and knowledge of U.S. politics and social media. DESIRABLE: experience in research, journalism, public policy or a related field. STRONG PLUS: familiarity with tech policy, internet culture, free expression issues and/or platform governance. Familiarity with Substack is a plus but not required. TERMS: roughly 5 to 8 hours per week, fully remote with flexible scheduling, starting as soon as possible and running through December 2026 with possible extension pending funding, for a USD 2,500 honorarium. APPLY by emailing your CV, a short cover note of a couple of paragraphs explaining your interest, and a writing sample (preferably on a tech or policy topic) to benjamin@americansunlight.org with 'Fellow Application' in the subject line. No closing date is stated.
Robot foundation models (pi-zero, OpenVLA, GR00T and others) are approaching widespread deployment on the back of more than USD 18 billion in funding, and almost nobody is working on their safety. The Physical AI Safety Institute, a new nonprofit founded by Bear Haon and Kaylene Stocking and seeded by a grant from BlueDot Impact, describes itself as a capacity-building organisation growing the community that develops techniques to interpret, align and control robot foundation models. Its research fellowship runs in 12-week cohorts: each fellow works within a stream led by a mentor on a concrete problem in physical AI safety, with mentors drawn from researchers with track records in robot foundation models, mechanistic interpretability, safe control or adversarial robustness for embodied systems. Each cohort ends with a research symposium where fellows present their work. STREAMS: mechanistic interpretability (sparse autoencoders and activation patching for VLA and WAM architectures); adversarial robustness (jailbreaking and prompt injection in the embodied action space); runtime monitoring (detecting when a policy operates outside its competence envelope); sim-to-real safety transfer (do safety behaviours survive deployment on physical hardware); and robot security (cyberattack vectors, data poisoning and supply chain for deployed robot models). WHO SHOULD APPLY: researchers with strong technical foundations in robotics or machine learning and a demonstrated interest in safety; prior safety experience is not required. PROCESS: this stage is an expression of interest, not a full application. The form takes about two minutes and asks you to pick your stream and preferred cohort dates; concrete details including stipend figures and application deadlines are shared through that channel, and neither is published on the site as of listing. PAISI also publishes seven free curriculum modules running from classical robot safety through VLA interpretability, adversarial robustness and runtime monitoring to deployment evaluation, plus a white paper, The Case for Physical AI Safety, at paisi.ai/the-case-for-physical-ai-safety. Contact: bear@paisi.ai.
The Institute for Advanced Study is seeking a 2026-27 Civic Science Fellow to advance understanding of the social, democratic and scientific implications of artificial intelligence. The full-time, 18-month position is based in the Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab led by Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science Alondra Nelson. Working closely with Professor Nelson and Lab members, the Fellow contributes to research and policy analysis and to scholarly and public-facing publications, and supports multidisciplinary, multisector initiatives at the intersection of AI, science and governance. DUTIES (75% Lab work): conduct original research on the Lab's AI-and-society agenda; synthesize scholarship on the social implications of AI, sociotechnical approaches to AI governance and the epistemological implications of AI in research; contribute policy research on governance mechanisms that strengthen democratic institutions; help organize convenings and working groups; collaborate on manuscripts, reports and grant proposals; support editorial development of publications; and develop public-facing essays, policy briefs and digital materials. The remaining 25% supports the Fellow's own independent research, network-building and full participation in the intellectual life of IAS. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: a PhD in the social sciences, sciences or humanities; a strong record of scholarly research, writing and publication on the social implications of science and technology or related fields; and exceptional writing and editing skills for both academic and non-academic audiences. Preferred: specialization in science and technology studies, science and technology policy, organizational studies or qualitative methods, and demonstrated engagement with AI governance and technology policy debates. Apply with a cover letter and resume via the IAS/Paylocity posting.
A one-year fellowship placing Fellows directly inside government, non-profit and social-enterprise host institutions across the United States to design and implement high-impact programs, translating data-driven insights into actionable policy recommendations, new programs and operational changes for the partners they serve. STIPEND: USD 47,000 living stipend for the year (scaled up for higher-cost cities) plus a reimbursable health-insurance stipend up to USD 5,000. ELIGIBILITY: primarily intended for candidates graduating from their academic programs in 2026 and/or already working full-time; this is a full-time 12-month commitment. PROCESS: applications and interviews are considered on a ROLLING basis starting in March, so applicants are encouraged to apply early; most engagements begin between June and November, with partner match meetings 6 to 8 weeks before the anticipated start. APPLY: https://www.adf.uchicago.edu/apply
The CHAI Research Fellowship trains highly qualified postdoctoral researchers to advance beneficial AI, working with CHAI faculty Stuart Russell, Pieter Abbeel and Anca Dragan and collaborating with affiliate faculty at Berkeley AI Research and beyond. Fellows have broad freedom to pursue novel research toward provably beneficial AI systems in areas such as reasoning, decision making, learning, multi-agent systems and philosophical foundations, using probability theory, game theory and control theory. Current topics of interest include theoretical foundations of intelligent agent architecture, expressive formal languages for probability models (including probabilistic programming), decision making over long time scales, cumulative lifelong learning, human-in-the-loop planning and reinforcement learning, human-robot interaction, the structure of human preferences, acting on behalf of multiple humans, robust cooperation in heterogeneous multi-agent systems, and mechanism design for human-machine systems. Fellows may also lead collaborations, advise junior researchers, and teach. QUALIFICATIONS: a PhD (or about to be obtained) in a relevant technical discipline (computer science, statistics, mathematics, or theoretical economics) and a record of high-quality published research; prior work on the AI control problem is not required. International applicants are eligible (visa sponsorship provided). TO APPLY: submit via the CHAI application form a resume, a one-page statement of interest describing the research you would like to undertake, and the names and emails of two academic referees. Start date is flexible and applications are reviewed on a rolling basis (no fixed deadline). General enquiries: chai-info@berkeley.edu.
The Good Life Residents Program is a six-month Roosevelt Institute initiative that develops new leaders and elevates bold ideas across six economic policy priorities under its Good Life Agenda. Each topic area hosts a cohort of 3 to 4 residents plus 1 to 2 senior Topic Advisors (academics, policy leaders, organizers or government practitioners) who provide strategic and intellectual mentorship and moderate the closing event. Residents write a roughly 1,500-word original policy essay advancing a people-centered policy vision against a topic-specific prompt, take part in structured dialogue with peers, Topic Advisors and Roosevelt Think Tank directors, help prepare and appear at a culminating public event, contribute to press opportunities such as op-eds and reporter calls where applicable, and act as ambassadors for the Good Life Agenda in their professional and public networks. The current round, the AI and Finance Residents Program, is run in partnership with Data & Society and asks for bold ideas on how to shape, redirect, interrupt or make more visible and contestable the flows of capital into generative AI. Framing: breakneck investment in generative AI technology and infrastructure is distorting the stock market, profit measures, bond issuance, the pace and composition of growth, job creation and trade policy, with seven tech companies accounting for more than a third of S&P 500 market capitalisation and complex, sometimes circular financial arrangements obscuring risk. Suggested lines of inquiry include what government interventions could improve public oversight, risk allocation and direction-setting in private markets; how other investments could be coordinated and scaled if AI spending is crowding them out; what role public spending or new institutions could play in catalysing technology R&D designed to support workers, sustainability and supply chains; what democratic input mechanisms would keep state influence over capital flows less vulnerable to corruption; and how federal AI policy should address public hostility to data centre investments alongside national security and competitiveness. Compensation is USD 3,000 plus travel and accommodation for the culminating event. FLAG: Roosevelt does not publish an application deadline for the AI and Finance round on the programme page, and earlier rounds (Social Security financing, Federal Reserve powers, housing) each ran their own short application window. Check the Formstack application form linked from the programme page for the current closing date before applying.
The ILIAD Intensive is a four-week, full-time, in-person program for mathematically strong researchers interested in foundational AI alignment, running in London (at LISA) and in Berkeley. It runs five days a week, 10am to 6pm, in cohorts of 15 to 30 participants. CURRICULUM, across five clusters: Alignment (decomposing the alignment problem, pretraining, post-training and deployment, reward learning); Learning (deep learning theory, singular learning theory, training dynamics); Abstractions, Representations and Interpretability (mechanistic interpretability, natural latents); Agency (reinforcement learning, decision theory, agent foundations); and Safety Guarantees (debate, steganography, the limits of interpretability). MONEY: no tuition is charged. Each participant receives a USD 5,000 travel and housing allowance, office space at the venue, and lunch and dinner five days a week. Participants book and pay for their own travel and accommodation out of the allowance. ELIGIBILITY: a strong mathematical background, typically graduate-level study or a completed degree in mathematics, physics or theoretical computer science, though mathematical maturity is weighted more heavily than specific credentials. Research experience, general competence and motivation are also assessed. Prior machine learning or alignment experience is not required. DEADLINE: no fixed closing date is published. A single application covers several upcoming programs and applicants indicate their preferred dates and locations; applications are being accepted for the October 2026 and November 2026 cohorts. HOW TO APPLY: through the application portal at iliad.ac/apply. Questions to contact@iliad.ac.
The Anthropic Fellows Program is a four-month, fully funded research fellowship with direct mentorship from Anthropic researchers. Fellows work on empirical projects aligned with Anthropic's research priorities using external infrastructure, aiming to produce public outputs such as papers. Five workstreams: AI Safety, AI Security, ML Systems and Performance, Reinforcement Learning, and Economics and Policy; safety topics include scalable oversight, adversarial robustness, mechanistic interpretability, and model organisms. FUNDING: a weekly stipend of USD 3,850 (GBP 2,310 / CAD 4,300), around USD 15,000 per month in compute funding, and other research expenses. ELIGIBILITY: fluent Python; available full-time for four months; strong technical background in computer science, mathematics, or physics; work authorization in the US, UK, or Canada (no visa sponsorship). Locations: San Francisco, London, Ontario, or remote within those countries. APPLICATION: rolling, via the Constellation portal; the process includes an initial application, reference checks, technical assessments, interviews, and a research discussion. The next cohort is expected to start in January 2027, so apply well before the end of 2026.