This fellowship addresses the need for conceptual clarification through research and field-building efforts.

Research:

Our team of philosophers critique and build on the existing conceptual AI safety literature, producing new conceptual frameworks to guide technical research. 

Thus far, our fellows have collectively produced eighteen original papers, soon to be published, covering topics including interpretability, corrigibility, and multipolar scenarios, to name a few.

Field-building:

We aim for the influence of this fellowship to extend beyond our current cohort, promoting and incentivizing conceptual AI safety research within the broader academic philosophy community. 

To date, our fellows have received $50,000 in funding to run a workshop connecting technical and conceptual AI safety researchers, organized numerous workshops, and created a special issue journal publication in Philosophical Studies.