Future Impact Group (FIG) Fellowship
Future Impact Group (FIG) is an Oxford-based nonprofit that removes barriers to impactful research by offering flexible, part-time fellowship roles on projects in AI policy, philosophy for safe AI, and AI sentience. Fellows work 8-10 hours per week as research associates supervised by project leads from institutions such as Oxford, GovAI, DeepMind, and MIT. FIG is funded by Open Philanthropy and Longview Philanthropy, and has produced research outputs including think tank blog posts, conference papers under review at NeurIPS and ICML, and confidential policy memos. Alumni have gone on to positions at OpenAI, the UK Department for Science & Technology, the UN Envoy on Technology, and the Centre for the Governance of AI.
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Theory of Change
FIG's theory of change holds that many talented researchers who could contribute to reducing AI-related risks are blocked from doing so by structural barriers: the need for full-time employment, geographic constraints, or lack of access to established networks. By offering part-time, remote-first research roles with experienced supervisors and a supportive community, FIG enables these researchers to develop expertise, build credentials, and produce useful research outputs. In the near term this generates direct research value (policy memos, technical papers, governance analyses). In the medium term it creates a pipeline of trained, credentialed researchers who enter high-impact organizations in AI governance and safety. The cumulative effect is a larger and more capable field working on the problems most likely to determine whether transformative AI goes well.
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- Apr 2, 2026, 9:51 PM UTC
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- Mar 19, 2026, 10:32 PM UTC