Anthropic Pays $500K to Lure Professors and Founders Into AI Safety

Takeaways

• Anthropic opened applications for a paid Residency targeting senior technical talent, with a November 22 deadline. Details here .
• Compensation runs $350K to $500K per year equivalent, with placements lasting six weeks to six months.
• No ML background required: aimed at professors, technical founders, and staff-level engineers.
• Residents get a dedicated Anthropic mentor, compute budget, and access to frontier models.
• Research areas span scalable oversight, interpretability, AI control, model organisms of misalignment, and AI welfare.
• Mentors include Ethan Perez, Evan Hubinger, Nicholas Carlini, and Jascha Sohl-Dickstein.