Experienced EA career advisors
Career advice by a well-connected and professional organization dedicated to helping people use their career for good. Does not accept all applications.
Focus
Career/contribution
Status
Active
Impact-focused career advice
Grassroots volunteer organization helping people contribute to reducing catastrophic risk from AI by directing them to the most relevant resources and communities.
Focus
Career/contribution
Status
Active
Career advice by a well-connected and professional organization dedicated to helping people use their career for good. Does not accept all applications.
Focus
Career/contribution
Status
Active
Grassroots volunteer organization helping people contribute to reducing catastrophic risk from AI by directing them to the most relevant resources and communities.
Focus
Career/contribution
Status
Active
The monthly Volunteer Opportunities Call connects people who want to volunteer with AI safety field-building projects that need volunteers.
Focus
Status
Active
Helps those who want to have a meaningful impact with their careers brainstorm career paths, evaluate options, and plan next steps.
Focus
Career/contribution
Status
Active
Provides personalized career advising to experienced professionals seeking to transition into AI risk reduction roles, offering expert guidance and practical support.
Focus
Career/contribution
Status
Active
The director of ENAIS provides career advice for people wanting to get into policy or technical work, as well as less traditional paths such as communications and community-building.
Focus
Career/contribution
Status
Active
Supports AI safety researchers and projects with grant ops, tax, international logistics, budgeting, and navigating funders and bureaucracy across the US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.
Focus
Other
Status
Active
If you're feeling called to contribute to existential safety but are unsure how best to do so, these advisors may be able to help.
Focus
Career/contribution
Status
Active
Individual offering math, coding, and alignment research advice. Their consultations have had many positive reviews, and they are generally happy to have multiple calls.
Focus
Other
Status
Active
Helps AI safety orgs and independent researchers with legal/policy grounding, including AI Act and GDPR compliance, and strategies to make technical governance work enforceable.
Focus
Other
Status
Active
Provides advice to those interested in pursuing a career dedicated to reducing risks of astronomical suffering – also known as s-risks.
Focus
Career/contribution
Status
Active
Tailored support for students to clarify their career plans, strengthen the theory of change of their research, and navigate their thesis journey with confidence.
Focus
Career/contribution
Status
Active
Their Pivot Track provides 1-1 strategy advice and local context to mid/senior-career professionals in Germany looking to transition into AI safety.
Focus
Career/contribution
Status
Active
Their Impact Accelerator Program helps experienced professionals achieve an impact with their career, including through 1-1s with like-minded professionals and facilitators.
Focus
Career/contribution
Status
Active
Helping experienced professionals change their career to AI safety through a program including conversations with experts, career coaching, and personalized intro calls.
Focus
Career/contribution
Status
Active
Experimental program using emerging technology, behavioral science, and applied rationality to help people lead uncommonly impactful lives.
Focus
Career/contribution
Status
Active
Coaching from a trained counsellor with a broad toolbox of interpersonal and emotional skills to improve team cohesion and personal effectiveness.
Focus
Other
Status
Active
If you have an unusual background, interest, skill set, or other resources, then this 10-year veteran of the AI safety field may be able to point you in a productive direction.
Focus
Career/contribution
Status
Active
Provides career advice and support to civil servants and non-civil servants looking to enter a high-impact government role in the UK.
Focus
Career/contribution
Status
Active
Helps consultants who want to use their skills to improve the world with 1-1 calls supporting them in choosing a focus, making connections, and finding work that makes a difference.
Focus
Career/contribution
Status
Active
Pairs people from underrepresented backgrounds who are interested in pursuing high-impact careers with more experienced mentors for a series of 1-1s.
Focus
Career/contribution
Status
Active
Personalized advice for experienced ML professionals (professors, PhD students, and industry researchers and engineers) who are interested in contributing to technical AI safety.
Focus
Career/contribution
Status
Inactive
Free career advice for people who are considering starting an AI safety organization – including technical, governance, meta, for-profit, or non-profit.
Focus
Career/contribution
Status
Inactive
Helped entrepreneurs, consultants, aspiring founders, and potential staff of startups get clarity about starting new organizations.
Focus
Career/contribution
Status
Inactive