Robi Rahman

Update: Applications are now closed. To register your interest in future cohorts, fill out this form. MIRI’s Technical Governance Team plans to run a small research fellowship program in early 2026. The program will run for 8 weeks, and include a $1200/week stipend. Fellows are expected to work on their projects 40 hours per week. The program is remote-by-default, with an in-person kickoff week in Berkeley, CA (flights and housing provided). Participants who already live in or near Berkeley are free to use our office for the duration of the program. Fellows will spend the first week picking out scoped projects from a list provided by our team or designing independent research projects (related to our overall agenda), and then spend seven weeks working on that project under the guidance of our Technical Governance Team. One of the main goals of the program is to identify full-time hires for the team. [Update: Applications are now closed. To register your interest in future cohorts, fill out this form.] If you are interested in participating, please fill out this application as soon as possible (should take 45-60 minutes). We plan to set dates for participation based on applicant availability, but we expect the fellowship to begin after February 2, 2026 and end before August 31, 2026 (i.e., some 8 week period in spring/summer, 2026). Strong applicants care deeply about existential risk, have existing experience in research or policy work, and are able to work autonomously for long stretches on topics that merge considerations from the technical and political worlds. Unfortunately, we are not able to sponsor visas for this program. Here are a few example projects we could imagine fellows approaching Adversarial detection of ML training on monitored GPUs: Investigate which hardware signals and side-channel measurements can most reliably distinguish ML training from other intensive workloads in an adversarial setting. Confidence-building measures to facilitate in