A field guide to meaningful AI work
Want to help with AI safety, but not sure how?
Explore paid roles, volunteer projects, fellowships, and emerging initiatives across the organizations shaping AI safety. Get matched to work that fits your skills—or join a growing community learning, discussing, and contributing together.
PROJECTS & OPPORTUNITIES LIVE
People are looking for your help.
Current roles and projects, pulled from official career sites.
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Research Engineer, InterpretabilityApollo Research · London · Hybrid
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Autonomy Evaluations EngineerMETR · Berkeley · On-site
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AI Safety Course FacilitatorBlueDot Impact · Remote
OpenMISSION-DRIVEN DOESN'T MEAN UNDERPAID
Do important work—and get paid very well.
Technical safety, security, and evaluation teams compete for exceptional talent. A move into AI safety can be a serious career step, not a financial sacrifice.
Explore live compensation & role stats →MEET THE FIELD
See who's working on what.
Independent evaluators, research labs, public institutes, standards bodies, and training programs.
Measures frontier-model capabilities, autonomy, and loss-of-control risks.
Researches scheming, deception, evaluations, and frontier AI security.
Incubates and conducts technical AI safety research and red-teaming.
Conducts safety research, builds the field, and develops safety standards.
Funds and connects research on cooperation, coordination, and multi-agent safety.
Studies how advanced AI systems can reliably act in line with human values.
Runs open research programs that help new contributors produce useful safety work.
Offers AI safety and governance courses, community, and career support.
Funds ambitious R&D, including large programs in scalable AI trust and coordination.
Evaluates advanced systems and builds public infrastructure for frontier AI security.
Develops AI measurement, risk-management, evaluation, and interoperability standards.
Runs advanced programs in cyber defense, autonomy, resilience, and contested systems.
FRESH FROM OFFICIAL CAREER SITES
Recent jobs and opportunities
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YONDON'S ECOSYSTEM MAP
AI safety initiatives
Research source updated August 17, 2026
See who is doing what, why they matter, and the highest-leverage way to help.
Explore all 12 initiatives →UK AISI / Inspect Cyber
Open evaluation infrastructure and international testing
View initiative →A PRACTICAL ON-RAMP
Not ready to change jobs? Start with one useful week.
You do not need another degree—or to have it all figured out. Learn the landscape, contribute to a scoped project, and speak with someone already doing the work.
- 01Map your transferable skills
10 minutes · Personalized
- 02Learn one core safety problem
2 hours · Curated reading
- 03Join a scoped project or program
1–5 hours · Real contribution
- 04Talk to a practitioner
30 minutes · Community intro