Successif is a nonprofit organization founded in 2022 (originally as EA Pathfinder) that supports experienced professionals in building careers in AI risk reduction. The organization offers free one-on-one career mentoring, collective workshops, peer support groups, women-specific leadership programming, and opportunity matchmaking. Its AI-specific track includes continuous job market research to identify high-leverage roles in AI safety and governance, as well as self-guided training modules in AI policy advocacy, AI media advocacy, policy analysis, and governance research. Services are available to professionals with at least five years of experience who are motivated to address global catastrophic risks.
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Successif's theory of change holds that mid-career and senior professionals represent an underutilized talent pool for AI safety and governance work. These individuals possess established networks, transferable expertise, and credibility that could be highly valuable to the field, but face specific structural and psychological barriers to transitioning (salary concerns, credential gaps, imposter syndrome, lack of awareness of opportunities). By providing targeted advising, skills training, and community support, Successif lowers these barriers and facilitates career transitions into AI safety and AI governance roles. A larger and more diverse talent base in these fields increases the capacity of the broader AI safety ecosystem to identify and address catastrophic AI risks. The organization uses the ikigai model and Holden Karnofsky's aptitudes framework to help professionals find roles at the intersection of their skills, motivations, and field needs.
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- Apr 2, 2026, 10:10 PM UTC
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- Mar 19, 2026, 10:30 PM UTC