AI Safety Team Lead

2 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom AI Safety Institute Full time
Join Our Mission to Ensure AI Safety

AISI is a leading organization dedicated to advancing AI safety and responsible innovation. We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced professional to lead our Systemic Safety team.

The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and implementing a strategy to advance systemic AI safety research, shaping a market-shaping agenda, and building a multidisciplinary team focused on pushing systemic safety forward as an agenda and creating the global environment for responsible innovation.

Key Responsibilities:
  1. Develop and deliver a comprehensive strategy to advance systemic AI safety research, identifying and catalyzing high-impact research collaborations.
  2. Shape a market-shaping agenda, seeking to create a system of third-party evaluators, and catalyze broader safety innovation.
  3. Build and lead a talent-dense, mission-aligned, multidisciplinary team focused on systemic AI safety, fostering strong links with partners in academia, industry, government, and civil society organizations.
  4. Create and manage an agile and effective set of interventions for AISI to deploy, including grants, competitions, and partnership arrangements.
  5. Collaborate across AISI's Research Unit teams to come to shared views on potentially high-potential technical directions, and then work together to find ways of catalyzing these amongst non-AISI partners.
  6. Act as part of AISI's leadership team, setting the culture and supporting staff.

The position offers the successful candidate an opportunity to play a high-impact role as AISI's ambassador to industry and academia, ensuring that AI Safety and Innovation is the remit of an increasing number of players.

Requirements:

You may be a good fit if you have some of the following skills, experience, and attitudes:

  1. A track record of working to ensure positive outcomes for all of society from the creation of AI systems.
  2. Experience managing a broad portfolio of externally delivered projects, grant programs, and/or other funding initiatives.
  3. History of developing market-shaping innovations to grow sectors through investments and other activity.
  4. Proven ability to catalyze innovation through targeted investments, with a deep understanding of funding mechanisms.
  5. Skilled at identifying and assessing promising proposals, with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  6. Strong relationship management skills, capable of building and maintaining long-term relationships with academic institutions and industry partnerships.
  7. Strategic thinker with a focus on outcomes, familiar with the academic research and innovation funding landscape.
  8. Comprehensive understanding of the field of AI and large language models, including current issues and risks.


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