CAIF’s mission is to support research and practice on the cooperative intelligence of advanced AI for the benefit of all. This mission is driven by our belief that many threats to humanity – such as climate change, nuclear war, and pandemics – are problems of cooperation, and that AI will be increasingly important in solving (or exacerbating) them.
Our ambition is to build the nascent field of Cooperative AI, improving the ability of AI systems to engender cooperation between humans, machines, and institutions. The introduction to the paper Open Problems in Cooperative AI gives some further background.
Our values are important to us. The “benefit of all” sits at the heart of everything we do. We are relentless in our ambition to have the greatest possible positive impact, both supporting and trusting our staff to perform at their best. We strive to learn from our failures, through a culture of curiosity, openness, and compassion, alongside evidence-based reasoning and rigorous evaluation. With a diversity of perspectives and values forming the core of any cooperation problem, we must also practise what we preach, maintaining plurality, equity, and inclusiveness in all that we do.
We’re a small, ambitious team looking to increase our impact by raising awareness of what we do. We’re looking for someone who can lead the communication of our work and increase influential audiences’ understanding of cooperative AI. The responsibilities of the Communications Officer will include:
We envisage this role as full time or 0.8 FTE, but are open to considering other options, for example for candidates who have other freelance work in science and technology communications.
We are a fully remote organisation, with regular opportunities to meet colleagues in person (team members are currently based in the UK, Sweden, and France). We do not have an office, so the successful candidate will work from home or from a workspace local to them.
We are registered in the UK, and do not expect to be able to apply for a UK Skilled Worker visa for this role. We will only be able to consider applications from individuals with permission to work in the UK or who are otherwise able to visit the UK for work purposes.
Salaries at CAIF account for demonstrated competencies and location-based cost of living. For this role we expect salaries offered to be between £35,000 and £40,000. A successful candidate with less prior experience should also expect their salary to increase in the role, contingent on performance.
Our benefits package includes home office equipment; travel expenses to co-locate with colleagues; 33 days of paid holiday (including bank holidays); a 5% pension contribution; a generous learning and development budget; and health and wellbeing support.
The application deadline is 29 September 2024 23:59 GMT. Please apply using this form. You will be asked to submit a CV and respond to a few short questions. The questions are designed to find out more about you, including your writing style and ability, so we strongly recommend answering them yourself. Your application will be read by one of our team, and generic AI-generated responses are likely to be screened out. Your data will be processed in accordance with our privacy policy.
Candidates who pass the application review will be invited to a short interview. The next stages will consist of a remote work test, followed by a panel interview and a short conversation with one of our directors. We hope to communicate final decisions by mid November.
We are committed to fostering a culture of inclusion, and we encourage people with diverse backgrounds and experiences to apply, particularly from underrepresented groups. If you have specific needs or circumstances that require accommodation, please contact us.
Our ideal candidate will be motivated by our mission and values and have strong experience in technology and/or science communication, corporate storytelling, or equivalent roles.
You will also have:
The following are not essential, but would be a plus:
Our assessment process is designed to test for these qualifications.
