For individuals of various backgrounds and career stages, Open Philanthropy offers funding for career development activities related to global catastrophic risks, which includes working on AI safety.
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and the examples listed there.
This might be interesting for some of us or students who want to explore some application of Social Choice methods in the AI context.
(E.g., someone might want to spend a few months in the Bay Area, maybe hosted by one of the AI safety co-working spaces there, working on something like social choice for RLHF.)