Anthropic AI Safety Fellow

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Anthropic</strong></h2> <p>Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.</p></div><p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong><em>Please apply by January 12, 2026 using <a href="https://constellation.fillout.com/anthropicfellows">this link</a></em></strong></span></p> <h1><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Anthropic Fellows Program Overview</strong></span></h1> <p>The Anthropic Fellows Program is designed to accelerate AI safety research and foster research talent. We provide funding and mentorship to promising technical talent - regardless of previous experience - to research the frontier of AI safety for four months.</p> <p>Fellows will primarily use external infrastructure (e.g. open-source models, public APIs) to work on an empirical project aligned with our research priorities, with the goal of producing a <strong>public output</strong> (e.g. a paper submission). In our previous cohorts, over 80% of fellows produced papers (more below).&nbsp;</p> <p>We run multiple cohorts of Fellows each year. This application is for our next two cohorts, starting in May and July 2026.</p> <h1><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>What to Expect</strong></span></h1> <ul> <li>Direct mentorship from Anthropic researchers&nbsp;</li> <li>Access to a shared workspace (in either Berkeley, California or London, UK)</li> <li>Connection to the broader AI safety research community</li> <li>Weekly stipend of 3,850 USD / 2,310 GBP / 4,300 CAD &amp; access to benefits (benefits vary by country)</li> <li>Funding for compute (~$15k/month) and other research expenses</li> </ul> <h1><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Mentors, Research Areas, &amp; Past Projects</strong></span></h1> <p>Fellows will undergo a project selection &amp; mentor matching process. Potential mentors amongst others include:</p> <ul> <li>Jan Leike</li> <li>Sam Bowman</li> <li>Sara Price</li> <li>Alex Tamkin</li> <li>Nina Panickssery</li> <li>Trenton Bricken</li> <li>Logan Graham</li> <li>Jascha Sohl-Dickstein</li> <li>Nicholas Carlini</li> <li>Joe Benton</li> <li>Collin Burns</li> <li>Fabien Roger</li> <li>Samuel Marks</li> <li>Kyle Fish</li> <li>Ethan Perez</li> </ul> <p>Our mentors will lead projects in select AI safety research areas, such as:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Scalable Oversight:</strong> Developing techniques to keep highly capable models helpful and honest, even as they surpass human-level intelligence in various domains.</li> <li><strong>Adversarial Robustness and AI Control:</strong> Creating methods to ensure advanced AI systems remain safe and harmless in unfamiliar or adversarial scenarios.</li> <li><strong>Model Organisms:</strong> Creating model organisms of misalignment to improve our empirical understanding of how alignment failures might arise.</li> <li><strong>Model Internals / Mechanistic Interpretability:</strong> Advancing our understanding of the internal workings of large language models to enable more targeted interventions and safety measures.</li> <li><strong>AI Welfare:</strong> Improving our understanding of potential AI welfare and developing related evaluations and mitigations.</li> </ul> <p>On our <a href="https://alignment.anthropic.com/">Alignment Science</a> and <a href="https://red.anthropic.com/">Frontier Red Team</a> blogs, you can read about past projects, including:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://red.anthropic.com/2025/smart-contracts/">AI agents find $4.6M in blockchain smart contract exploits:</a>&nbsp;Winnie Xiao and Cole Killian, mentored by Nicholas Carlini and Alwin Peng</li> <li><a href="https://alignment.anthropic.com/2025/subliminal-learning/">Subliminal Learning: Language Models Transmit Behavioral Traits via Hi ... (truncated, view full listing at source)