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.
