Job description
Georgetown University, Center for Security and Emerging Technology • United States
Frontier AI Research Lead
CSET Frontier AI Research Lead
The Center for Security and Emerging Technology ( CSET ) is currently seeking candidates to lead our Frontier AI research efforts, either as a Research Fellow or Senior Fellow (depending on experience).
About the Research:
CSET is expanding our work on issues related to the cutting-edge, general-purpose AI systems known as ‘frontier AI.’ Building on work by CSET’s CyberAI Project , Foundational Research Grants program, and other teams, this research aims to give policymakers and other stakeholders greater clarity about the general-purpose AI frontier, including current capabilities, use cases, and risks; where the frontier might move next, including the prospects of developing artificial general intelligence or ‘superintelligence’ and the factors that likely to alter those prospects; and how new evidence should affect our picture of what to expect. Key areas for examination include investigating Chinese frontier AI efforts, monitoring the development and deployment of increasingly capable AI agents, making sense of conflicting evidence around capabilities and risks, and assessing the compute demands of frontier systems. Understanding why experts disagree about key frontier AI issues and exploring what those issues mean for policy will be recurring themes across projects.