🌍 Fellowship (Remote) 🧠 Digital Minds Career Development Fellowships: AI Sentience, Welfare & Policy 🤖 (Funded stipend)

Longview Philanthropy, in collaboration with Future Impact Group, is offering funding to support individuals exploring a career move into research, policy or practice concerning the consciousness, sentience, moral status or welfare of AI systems ("digital minds"). Future Impact Group facilitates networking for selected fellows and helps Longview review applications.

Who They'd Like to Hear From

This non-exhaustive list of profiles may fit the programme:

🎓 A current or prospective graduate student seeking support to study digital minds issues

🤖 A technical AI researcher exploring research topics, events and organisations to select a high-impact role

📣 A communications professional pivoting to digital minds work (running surveys, building experts' platforms)

🚀 A non-profit entrepreneur spending a year exploring the space to identify an organisation to start up

🏛️ A civil servant, diplomat or legal researcher exploring sensible digital-minds policy

🧭 A participant in an AI safety fellowship (such as MATS or FIG) continuing with their mentor on digital minds topics

If you're not represented above but believe you're a strong fit, you're encouraged to apply.

Requirements & Selection Criteria

Successful applicants are typically degree students or people with an established mentorship relationship looking to spend dedicated time developing skills and exploring roles, or exceptionally talented individuals identifying high-impact organisations to start. Applications are assessed on three criteria, weighed together:

1️⃣ A strong, demonstrated interest in digital sentience and the surrounding questions, with serious prior engagement, an understanding of how the field relates to broader AI risk, and a considered view of where useful contributions lie

2️⃣ Evidence of capacity for impactful work (prior achievements, employment history, academic record and references)

3️⃣ Promising plans for fellowship activities and potential future work, ideally including mentors or advisors

Priority goes to applicants who couldn't easily pursue this work without Longview funding, or whose existing funding comes with limiting restrictions.

Eligible Activities

🎓 Graduate study related to digital minds

🔬 Postdoctoral research

📚 Course buy-outs for current academics

💼 Unpaid or low-paid internships at relevant organisations

🧠 Independent study and skill development

🔄 Career transition or exploration periods

🌉 Transition stipends bridging between roles

🛠️ Other career-capital-building activities relevant to working on digital minds issues

Support

🤝 Networking opportunities

💻 Access to computational resources (if applicable)

🎟️ An invitation to the annual Mind, Ethics, and Policy Summit at NYU

How to Apply

📝 Complete the Airtable application form (linked below). It asks for biographical and logistical information; a resume, CV or LinkedIn; around 300 words on what motivates your interest; 200–1000 words on how you intend to spend the fellowship; around 300 words on what you might do afterwards; an account of what you'd do without this funding (alternative funding sources with rough likelihoods, or alternative plans); the funding requested and timeline; and around 150 words on what you'd do if you didn't get this funding. Questions: digitalminds-rfp@longview.org

The Details

🌍 Location: remote (subject to grant-eligible countries, as listed in the application form)

🎓 Programme: Digital Minds Career Development Fellowships (Longview Philanthropy with Future Impact Group)

💶 Funding: a stipend calibrated to the award duration, cost of living and your prior experience, plus additional research/logistics funding on a case-by-case basis

🤝 Support: networking, computational resources (if applicable) and an invitation to the Mind, Ethics, and Policy Summit at NYU