EA - LPP Summer Research Fellowship in Law & AI 2023: Applications Open by Legal Priorities Project

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: LPP Summer Research Fellowship in Law & AI 2023: Applications Open, published by Legal Priorities Project on June 20, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.The Legal Priorities Project (LPP) is excited to announce that applications for our Summer Research Fellowship in Law & AI 2023 are now open. For 8–12 weeks, participants will work with researchers at LPP on how the law can help to mitigate existential risks from artificial intelligence. Fellows will receive a stipend of $10,000.If you are interested in carrying out research in this field and are considering using your career to mitigate existential risks, particularly those from AI, we invite you to apply. The application deadline is July 6 at 11:59 pm Anywhere on Earth; however, we will consider applications and select fellows on a rolling basis, so we encourage you to apply as early as possible. Current students are encouraged to check their academic calendars and apply with enough time to complete the fellowship, or as much of it as possible, before classes resume.We look forward to receiving your application!About the fellowshipYou will take the lead on a research project, with mentorship and support from other LPP researchers. We will support you in deciding what project and output will be most valuable for you to work towards, for example, publishing a report, journal/law review article, or blog post. We also expect fellows to attend regular meetings, give occasional presentations on their research, and provide feedback on other research pieces.Fellows will have the opportunity to select a research topic from a list prepared by LPP. Potential research topics for the summer may include:Tort law liability, including strict liability for abnormally dangerous activities, for activities related to the development and dissemination of transformative AI.Product liability law as a way to address harms from transformative AI.The role of litigation in mitigating risks from transformative AI.Potential obstacles for AI regulation presented by the major questions doctrine.First Amendment issues related to AI regulation.The design of a new international organization, similar to the IAEA or CERN, for the international governance of AI.The legal authorities of agencies in the United States government to address risks from transformative AI.The influence of different jurisdictions on the development and dissemination of transformative AI.Developing a syllabus for a course on law and transformative AI.This list of topics is non-exhaustive, and is presented to give an overview of the types of research we are interested in. Fellows will further define the research question at the beginning of the fellowship.In exceptional cases, we are open to research project proposals relevant to existential risk in one of our other focus areas.Selection criteriaWe are looking for graduate law students (JD or LLM), PhD candidates, and postdocs working in law. Students entering the final year of a 5-year undergraduate law degree are also welcome to apply.We strongly encourage you to apply if you have an interest in our work and are considering using your career to study or mitigate existential risks, particularly those from transformative AI. Candidates will be expected to apply their research capabilities and legal knowledge to AI governance, but are not required to have previous experience or expertise in AI.In addition to a willingness to engage with existential risks from AI, the ideal candidate will have the following strengths:Ability to carry out self-directed research with limited supervision.Excellent written communication skills.Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills.If you're not sure about applying because you don't know if you're qualified or the right fit, we would encourage you to apply a...