Director of Legal Research - Emergency Preparedness & Civil Defense

Job Summary

Lead legal research on possible U.S. federal and state-level policy interventions supporting public safety, security, and wellbeing for scenarios of highly multipolar AGI run amok. Research on underutilized authorities, opportunities for better communication and response, and for legal loopholes that may be filled by an action of an executive agency, all against the backdrop of the reality of the changing landscape in D.C. Work closely with the Public Security Policy program lead to craft creative holistic solutions to projected catastrophic issues regarding public health and safety, civil rights, human rights, national security, global security, emergency preparedness, emergency management, economic stability, infrastructure security, and novel threat profiles. Neither deep technical AI knowledge nor AI-specific policy experience is necessarily required, as the legal codes and policies in question are regarding the next lines of defense of society after AI governance would fail. CARMA's other teams in AI risk assessment, offense/defense, and geostrategic dynamics will happily assist in scenario analysis of the risks to mitigate. About the Organization

The Center for AI Risk Management & Alignment (CARMA) aims to help society navigate the complex and problematic dynamics that arise from the advent of smarter-than-human AI. CARMA's mission is specifically to lower the risks to humanity and the biosphere from transformative AI. Via better grounding AI risk management, via policy research squarely addressing AGI, via showing a path to better tradeoffs in technical safety, and by fostering global perspectives on durable safety, CARMA aims to provide critical support to society for managing the outsized risks from advanced AI. CARMA is a fiscally-sponsored project of Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public benefit corporation.