Job description
AI Security Institute • London
About the AI Security Institute
The AI Security Institute is the world's largest and best-funded team dedicated to understanding advanced AI risks and translating that knowledge into action. We’re in the heart of the UK government with direct lines to No. 10 (the Prime Minister's office), and we work with frontier developers and governments globally.
We’re here because governments are critical for advanced AI going well, and UK AISI is uniquely positioned to mobilise them. With our resources, unique agility and international influence, this is the best place to shape both AI development and government action.
The deadline for applying to this role is Monday 1st June 2026, end of day, anywhere on Earth.
Team Description
The Human Influence team studies when, why, and how frontier AI systems influence human attitudes and behaviour. The team's mandate is to build a rigorous, world-class evidence base for the safe and responsible development of frontier AI. We measure the impacts of frontier AI systems on human users, to identify risks to human agency and wellbeing; and develop mitigation strategies. This includes research on persuasion, manipulation, deception, advice-giving, theory of mind, anthropomorphism, sycophancy, and socioaffective human–AI relationships.
Our team includes top technical talent from academia and frontier AI companies. Our projects combine methods from computational social science, AI safety and security, cognitive science, behavioural science, computer science, machine learning, and data science. Many of our projects involve conducting careful and rigorous human–AI interaction experiments and randomised controlled trials (RCTs).