2027 AI/ML Research Fellow

10 places are open for the 2027 term, with a duration of 6 or 12 months at the applicant's option. Purpose There is a crisis in academic AI/ML research. What is still worth working on? Paper submissions have doubled on the arXiv and at ML conferences, and yet many submitters cannot even answer questions about the details of "their" work. Many people across applied research and theory groups, whether math, physics, or computer science, have the distinct feeling that perhaps it is pointless to work on anything other than AI safety and continual learning. If we simply draw a line continuing the capabilities progress of the past two years forward, it seems possible that human contributions will be a marginal input in many areas of research within two or three years.…