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Fellowships
We operate a number of fellowship programs to provide financial support to researchers working on AI Governance and Existential Safety.
Since 2021, our Fellowship programs have supported a remarkable community of PhD students and postdoctoral researchers working on AI existential safety and AI governance. Over the past several years, our Fellows have gone on to make a deep and lasting impact: advancing critical research, joining leading institutions, and helping to strengthen the global talent pipeline in this vital field. We are immensely proud of everything they have accomplished.
We will not be accepting applications for Fellowships in the fall of 2026. We are taking a pause to reflect on the program and reassess its direction for the future. We do not have a timeline to share at this stage, and we encourage prospective applicants to plan accordingly. To stay informed about this and other grant opportunities, we invite you to subscribe to our newsletter.
US-China AI Governance PhD Fellowships
Closed for submissions
Deadline: November 21, 2025
Technical PhD Fellowships
Closed for submissions
Deadline: November 21, 2025
Technical Postdoctoral Fellowships
Closed for submissions
Deadline: 5 January 2026
Please contact grants@futureoflife.org with any questions.
AI Safety Community
A community dedicated to ensuring AI is developed safely.
The way to ensure a better, safer future with AI is not to impede the development of this new technology but to accelerate our wisdom in handling it by supporting AI safety research.
Since it may take decades to complete this research it is prudent to start now. AI safety research prepares us better for the future by pre-emptively making AI beneficial to society and reducing its risks.
This mission motivates research across many disciplines, from economics and law to technical areas like verification, validity, security, and control. We’d love you to join!
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