Editor

The Future of Life Institute (FLI) is hiring an Editor to play a crucial role in shaping and producing FLI's written, broadcast and video output. Our outreach projects currently include (but are not limited to) top-tier press outreach, short films production, building a network of aligned content creators, creating a series of AGI-focused PSAs, executing a national public engagement campaign and more. In the next 6-12 months, we plan to scale up our outreach and campaign efforts even further to produce targeted content for a broad range of key audiences. To enable this, we need creative and detail oriented talent to drive these projects forward. The Editor will report directly to FLI's Director of Communications.  

Do you believe we need to raise awareness about the risks and benefits of advanced AI, and the steps necessary to ensure its safe and prosperous development?

FLI educates and engages lawmakers, key stakeholders, and the general public about transformative technologies and their implications. In doing so, it advises and advocates on the necessary steps to avoid catastrophic risks while bringing about positive futures for all. 

As Editor, you will:

• Shape and produce written output to deliver maximum impact, including. opeds, blog posts, website copy and press releases.

• Edit scripts and storyboards to help create world-class content across all of FLI's platforms, incl. short-form video, social media, movies and PSAs.

• Help produce effective messaging that clearly communicates FLI's positions in an evocative and informative manner.

• Work with FLI comms team and leadership to generate and refine new content and commentary ideas for driving awareness and understanding of FLI issues.

• Depending on seniority: Take ownership over large media campaigns, from conception to distribution. 

Required qualifications, skills and qualities:

• Undergraduate degree or higher.

• Written and spoken fluency in English.

• Relevant and high quality experience in journalism, editing, screenwriting or related field.

• Proven flair for communicating complex and/or technical issues in a clear and evocative manner.

• Strong understanding of issues surrounding AI development and deployment, including (but not limited to) loss of control, misuse, power concentration, alignment, and AGI/superintelligence.

• Demonstrated aptitude for communication and messaging across specific audiences and different stakeholder groups.

• Excited by the prospect of joining a small but influential team looking to improve humanity’s future.

Preferred qualifications, skills and qualities:

• Undergraduate degree in communications, English, journalism or related discipline.

• Proven writing ability on issues relating to AI and its development/deployment.

• In-depth understanding of how to develop scripts and storyboards for production.

• Experience writing commentary for top-tier publications.

• Speech-writing and ghostwriting expertise.

• Experience managing large media campaigns. 

$90,000 - $190,000 a year

Exact compensation will vary depending on experience and geography.

Additional benefits include, health insurance, 24+ days of PTO per year, paid parental leave, 401k matching in the US, and a work from home allowance for the purchase of office supplies or equipment.

Application Process

Application Deadline: Monday 8th September 2025. Rolling applications may be considered after the application deadline if the position has not been filled.

Start Date: We'd like the chosen candidate to start as soon as possible after accepting an offer.

Application Process: Apply by uploading your resume, alongside a short answer to the following questions:

- In 250 words or less, please write an evocative statement/piece that clearly yet creatively illustrates and conveys the risk of losing control to smarter-than-human AGI/superintelligence.

- In 250 words or less, explain a concept and outline for a video or written piece to drive awareness and understanding of AI safety in an innovative yet informative way.

Please apply via our website. Email applications are not accepted.

FLI aims to be an inclusive organization. We proactively seek job applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds. If you are passionate about FLI’s mission and think you have what it takes to be successful in this role even though you may not check all the boxes, please still apply. We would appreciate the opportunity to consider your application.

Questions may be directed to jobsadmin@futureoflife.org.

About the Future of Life Institute

Founded in 2014, FLI is an independent non-profit working to steer transformative technology towards benefitting life and away from extreme large-scale risks. Our work includes grantmaking, educational outreach, and policy engagement.

Our work has been featured in The Washington Post, Politico, Vox, Forbes, The Guardian, the BBC, and Wired.

Some of our achievements include:

- Pause Giant AI Experiments, an open letter calling for a 6 month pause on the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4. The letter has been signed by more than 30,000 people, including Yoshua Bengio, Stuart Russell, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Yuval Noah Harari, and Andrew Yang.

- The Asilomar AI Principles, one of the earliest and most influential sets of AI governance principles.

- Slaughterbots, a viral video campaign raising awareness about the dangers of lethal autonomous weapons.

- The Future of Life Award, which retrospectively awards unsung heroes who made the world a better place. Past winners include individuals who prevented nuclear wars, helped to eradicate smallpox, and solved the ozone crisis.

- Worldbuild.ai, which imagines flourishing futures with strong AI and works out how to get there.

FLI is a largely virtual organization, with a team of >25 distributed internationally, mostly in Europe and the US. We have four offices: Campbell in California, Brussels in Belgium, London in the UK, and Washington DC. We meet in person as a full team twice a year.