AI BriefingOpenAI Announces Safety Fellowship
Key point
OpenAI has announced the 'Safety Fellowship' program for external researchers to support AI safety and alignment research.
Details
OpenAI is launching the OpenAI Safety Fellowship pilot program, which supports Safety and Alignment research for next-generation AI systems, targeting external researchers, engineers, and practitioners. The program runs from September 14, 2026 to February 5, 2027.
The main research areas are as follows:
- Safety evaluation and Ethics
- Robustness and Scalable mitigations
- Privacy-preserving safety methods
- Agentic oversight and High-severity misuse domains
Participants will collaborate with OpenAI mentors, and can participate either in person at Constellation in Berkeley or remotely. By the end of the program, participants must submit substantive research outputs such as papers, benchmarks, and datasets, and participants will be provided with a monthly Stipend, compute resources, mentoring, and API credits.
The application deadline is May 3, and final selected participants will be announced on July 25.
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