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About the Role

This role is critical for providing strategic, AI-specific guidance to insiders within frontier AI companies who have concerns. You will focus on identifying critical disclosure scenarios, developing necessary guidance, and ensuring it reaches those who need it, aiming to maximize impact and minimize risk for individuals raising concerns. This position offers significant autonomy, budget, and headcount responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute research to identify and address guidance gaps for AI company insiders.
• Conduct stakeholder consultations and scenario workshops to develop guidance.
• Commission and manage fellows and contractors for research activities.
• Design and publish automations for problem discovery, research, and network maintenance.
• Convert research 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 response to disclosures within hours.
• Advise on AIWI's strategic priorities, including risk categories, company functions, and disclosure types.
• Initiate new projects to close gaps in the 'whistleblowing chain', such as enabling safe coordination for disclosures.
• Collaborate closely with the policy team.

Requirements

• Unwavering integrity and understanding of the role's significant impact.
• Relentless resourcefulness and ability to overcome obstacles.
• Proven ability to provide advice and counsel in difficult situations.
• Extremely strong strategic thinking and opinionated judgment under uncertainty.
• Ability to prioritize consistently, think in hypotheses, and synthesize specialist input.
• Track record of independently managing complex projects, including recruiting and managing collaborators.
• Past employment at a frontier company with firsthand understanding of organizational practices in AI development.
• Technical understanding sufficient to assess the degree of concern in technical issues.
• Epistemic humility, with a willingness to seek feedback and involve diverse voices.
• Evidence of ability to communicate effectively with non-technical audiences.
• Possession of a relevant, trusted network.
• Deep interest in rapidly gaining understanding of whistleblowing, legal, and security domains.
• Must be authorized to work in the US; visa sponsorship is not provided.

Skills

• Strategic thinking
• Judgment under uncertainty
• Problem-solving
• Project management
• Network building
• Communication
• Technical assessment
• Organizational analysis

Location

• San Francisco Bay Area

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior

Salary/Compensations

• High six-figure

Benefits

• Impactful work influencing critical moments in humanity's trajectory
• Intellectually stimulating environment with leading thinkers
• Independence and ownership with budget and team building
• Opportunity for growth and shaping AIWI's future
• Supportive team environment
• Runway secured until 2029

About the Company

• AIWI is an independent non-profit launched in late 2024, focused on ensuring insider disclosures in AI are maximally impactful and safe.
• The organization is scaling from ~4 FTE to ~15 FTE within the year, with team members in the Bay Area, DC, and London.
• AIWI has a secured runway until 2029.
• Past work includes leading the creation of the world's first AI whistleblowing channel, shaping the EU AI Office's channel, running online campaigns reaching thousands of employees, producing guides and online courses, and advocating for policy changes (e.g., whistleblowing policies at Anthropic and OpenAI).
• AIWI collaborates closely with leading whistleblowing and AI organizations.

Equal Opportunity

• AIWI is an equal opportunity employer.
• We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status.