Head of Communications

HEAD OF COMMUNICATIONS FAR.AI http://FAR.AI is seeking an experienced communications leader to develop and execute a communications strategy to inform key stakeholders on AI capabilities, risks and solutions, and advocate for responsible development and deployment. In this role, you will take full ownership of the communications function at FAR.AI http://FAR.AI, shaping our content and messaging; reaching our audience through both social and traditional media; and directly engaging key decision makers in government and industry. You’ll work cross-functionally, leveraging FAR.AI http://FAR.AI’s events and research teams to capitalize on our technical credibility, depth and convening power. You’ll be instrumental in growing our existing communications work, leading a team of four communications experts, and launching a bold new communications strategy. You will start with a budget of $1mn/year for the division and we are excited to further grow the division. If you thrive on variety, love solving challenges and are excited to help shape the future of a mission driven organization, we’d love to hear from you. ABOUT US FAR.AI http://FAR.AI is the world’s largest non-profit AI research institute working to ensure advanced AI is safe and beneficial for everyone. Our mission is to facilitate breakthrough AI safety research, advance global understanding of AI risks and solutions, and foster a coordinated global response. Since our founding in July 2022, we've grown to 40+ staff https://www.far.ai/about/team, published 40+ academic papers https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FVJ24k8AAAAJ, and convened leading AI safety events https://far.ai/events/. Our work is recognized globally, with publications at premier venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, and ICLR, and features in the Financial Times https://www.ft.com/content/175e5314-a7f7-4741-a786-273219f433a1, Nature News https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02218-7 and MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/02/28/905615/reinforcement-learning-adversarial-attack-gaming-ai-deepmind-alphazero-selfdriving-cars/. We conduct pre-deployment testing on behalf of frontier developers such as OpenAI and independent evaluations for governments including the EU AI Office https://www.far.ai/news/far-ai-selected-to-lead-eu-ai-act-cbrn-risk-consortium. We help steer and grow the AI safety field through developing https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.06624 research https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20702 roadmaps https://www.researchgate.net/publication/396910034_Open_Technical_Problems_in_Open-Weight_AI_Model_Risk_Management with renowned researchers such as Yoshua Bengio; running FAR.Labs https://www.far.ai/programs/far-labs, an AI safety-focused co-working space in Berkeley housing 40 members; and supporting the community through targeted grants https://www.far.ai/programs/grantmaking to technical researchers. ABOUT COMMUNICATIONS AT FAR.AI http://FAR.AI We believe that AI will be the defining technology of the 21st century. These systems could bring with them unprecedented benefits, but they also pose unprecedented risks, up to human extinction. We already know that AI will fundamentally affect everyone’s lives, reshaping the nature of work and upending geopolitics. Yet few people outside of Silicon Valley appreciate what is about to happen. Key decisionmakers in governments and companies have a limited view on what is to come, while the general public are even more in the dark. Communications at FAR.AI http://FAR.AI fills this urgent gap. As a research and education non-profit, we are a trusted, independent third-party that can cut through the hype, avoid fear mongering, while delivering credible warnings when a technology truly poses a danger. Our Communications Team https://www.far.ai/about/team#toc-header-3 partners directly with FAR.AI http://FAR.AI researchers to build credibility and improve accessibility of our research – translating our work into highly visible narratives, intelligibl…