AI and National Security Convergence Fellowship 2026-2027 – YOA

Deadline: October 28, 2026

Applications are open for the AI and National Security Convergence Fellowship 2026-2027. The Converging Risks Lab (CRL), a unit inside the Council on Strategic Risks (CSR), in partnership with the Future of Life Institute (FLI), is launching the second spherical of its AI & National Security Convergence Fellowship to hone 15 mid-profession professionals’ capacity to maintain AI inside human management at this significant second.

This Fellowship has 4 main parts: a bootcamp, a workers journey, workouts, and networking alternatives. Apart from the workers journey, all in-particular person conferences and networking occasions will happen in downtown DC.

• Bootcamp and modules: Fellows will floor themselves in essential components of human management throughout a seven-month “bootcamp” and apply that information to a collection of matter-particular modules. Each module could have two halves; Fellows will meet biweekly for two-hour-lengthy classes, for a complete of 14 classes over the bootcamp. Half of those classes shall be digital, and the opposite half shall be in particular person at CSR’s workplaces in Farragut Square.
• Staff journey: Fellows will go on a brief home journey to go to frontier AI labs in addition to different related organizations – e.g., a nationwide lab, a navy unit, or a analysis establishment. The Fellowship will cowl the price of airfare, lodging, and meals.
• Exercises: To apply the information they achieve, Fellows will have interaction in two state of affairs workouts and a capstone matrix sport.
• Networking alternatives: Fellows could have the OPPORTUNITY to community with one another throughout kick-off and closing dinners, and community and join with friends, senior officers, and different professionals at no-host comfortable hours. As with final 12 months’s Fellowship, six senior leaders will function Senior Advisors to the Fellowship and work together with Fellows in the course of the modules.

Eligibility

• This Fellowship is geared in the direction of people on the mid-profession stage, outlined as these with 10-15 years {of professional} and/or superior tutorial expertise.
• This Fellowship is open to a broad vary of applicant backgrounds related to AI and nationwide safety points, together with people with expertise working in diplomacy, protection, or worldwide relations; these with authorized, scientific, technical, or different skilled backgrounds associated to AI safety; these with expertise working in or with the US Congress; and these in native, state, or US federal authorities.
• Knowledge of AI and its aspects is beneficial however not a prerequisite.
• US residents and DC-based mostly overseas nationals from allied nations are welcome to apply. 

Requirements

• Applicants should stay inside the DC space and have the ability to attend common conferences and occasions in downtown DC. Fellows are anticipated to attend seven in-particular person modules, two state of affairs workouts with dinners following, the journey (dates to be decided in coordination with the Fellows), and the ultimate matrix sport and dinner to shut out this system.
• Applicants should affirm that they will attend all bootcamp conferences. Bootcamp classes will accommodate work schedules as a lot as doable, and Fellows are permitted to overlook a most variety of 5 classes for excusable causes. However, Fellows won’t be allowed to assert alumni standing in this system ought to they miss greater than six classes.

Application

All candidates ought to full the application, add a resume or CV, and present two references. Cover letters are usually not required. Applications are due by 5 pm Eastern Daylight Time on October 28, 2026. Applicants can alter their submission till this time.

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For extra data, go to AI and National Security Convergence Fellowship.