Head of Guidance and Preparedness at The AI Whistleblower Initiative | CA, US | Rezi

Head of Guidance and Preparedness at The AI Whistleblower Initiative

Head of Guidance and Preparedness

The AI Whistleblower Initiative · CA, US

2 days ago

Head of Guidance and Preparedness

The AI Whistleblower Initiative · CA, US

3 days ago
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About the Role

This role is responsible for providing strategic, AI-specific guidance to insiders at frontier AI companies who are raising concerns. It aims to ensure critical disclosures occur optimally and with maximum impact and minimal risk, addressing a significant gap in the current ecosystem. This is a critical, high-impact position with significant budget and headcount responsibility, requiring a blend of strategic thinking and pragmatic, rapid-response work.

Responsibilities

  • Design and run research to uncover and close guidance gaps through stakeholder consultations and scenario workshops.
  • Commission and manage fellows and contractors for research initiatives.
  • Design and publish automations in problem discovery, research, and network maintenance.
  • Convert insights into actionable processes and guidance for insiders, partner attorneys, and support organizations.
  • Train insiders and partner organizations on developed guidance.
  • Build and maintain a trusted expert network for rapid consultation.
  • Develop preparedness plans for optimal responses to high-sensitivity disclosure scenarios.
  • Advise on AIWI's strategy, prioritizing risk categories, company functions, and disclosure types.
  • Initiate new projects to close gaps in the 'whistleblowing chain', such as enabling safe employee coordination for disclosures.
  • Work closely with the policy team.

Requirements

  • Unwavering integrity and understanding of the role's weight.
  • Relentless resourcefulness and ability to overcome obstacles.
  • Proven ability to provide advice in difficult situations.
  • Experience counseling individuals working at AI companies is ideal.
  • Extremely strong strategic thinking and judgment under uncertainty.
  • Ability to manage complexity, prioritize consistently, and form actionable opinions.
  • Track record of independently managing projects that tackled large, complex challenges.
  • Experience recruiting and managing collaborators, supporters, and stakeholders.
  • Past employment at a frontier company with firsthand understanding of organizational practices is preferred.
  • High interest in organizational dynamics.
  • Technical understanding sufficient to assess the degree of concern in technical issues.
  • Epistemic humility and willingness to seek feedback.
  • Evidence of ability to communicate with non-technical audiences.
  • Possession of a relevant, trusted network.
  • Deep interest in rapidly gaining understanding of whistleblowing, legal, and security domains.

Skills

  • Strategic thinking
  • Judgment under uncertainty
  • Problem-solving
  • Project management
  • Network building
  • Communication with non-technical audiences
  • Research design
  • Stakeholder management
  • Rapid response planning

Location

  • Bay Area
  • DC
  • London

Work Type

  • Full-time

Experience Level

  • Senior

Salary/Compensations

  • High 6 digit

Benefits

  • Influence critical moments in humanity's shared trajectory.
  • Support individual humans in need.
  • Intellectually stimulating work with leading thinkers.
  • Unite strategic and pragmatic thinking.
  • Independence and ownership.
  • Opportunity to build a team and manage a budget.
  • Environment that celebrates experimentation and execution.
  • Shape AIWI during dramatic organizational scaling.
  • Supportive team environment.
  • Competitive compensation.
  • Runway secured until 2029.

About the Company

  • AIWI is an independent non-profit launched in late 2024.
  • Currently ~4 FTE, scaling to ~15 FTE within the year.
  • Funded until 2029.
  • Led the creation of the world's first AI whistleblowing channel.
  • Pushed for and shaped the EU AI Office's channel.
  • Conducted online campaigns reaching thousands of company employees.
  • Produce guides and online courses.
  • Help establish connections to partner attorneys and support organizations.
  • Initiated the Publish Your Policies Campaign, leading to improved whistleblowing policies at Anthropic and OpenAI.
  • Collaborates closely with leading whistleblowing and AI organizations.
  • Ambition is to ensure each disclosure reaches the best person to act on it, is understood, and maximizes safety for the discloser.