In the wake of the success of Nate and Eliezer’s book, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, we have an opportunity to push through a lot of doors that have cracked open, and roll a lot of snowballs down a lot of hills. 2026 is going to be a year of ambitious experimentation, trying lots of new ways to deliver MIRI ideas and content to newly receptive audiences.
This means ramping up our capacity, particularly in the arena of communications. Our team did an admirable job in 2025 of handling all of the challenges of launching and promoting a book (including helping Nate and Eliezer assemble the supplemental materials for it, which is an artifact that we expect to be extremely useful, going forward). But we’ve both a) had to let some things slide a little bit, in the scramble, and want to get the house back in order, and b) need more hands for the upcoming push.
Further description is available here, along with the application. A (very abridged) version is below. We’re hoping to hire somewhere between 2 and 8 new team members within the next 3 months.
We’ll be doing a more concentrated push in places like Linkedin starting in January, but at the moment we’re highly interested in hearing from people in our existing network. If you have friends with relevant skills who might be interested, please tell them about our openings.
The vision: In 2025, MIRI’s comms team was organized around the singular goal of making the launch of IABIED go well.
In 2026, we are looking to form a team that is taking an ambitious, multistrategy approach to getting the MIRI worldview in front of as many eyes as possible, with some degree of prioritizing particular audiences but a healthy dose of “everybody.”
Picture a team meeting in which:
This is just a single example in a pretty high-dimensional space. But what we’re getting at qualitatively is a team of largely self-directed agents, each with one or two specializations and mostly pursuing very different tasks, but all under the general umbrella of “move fast and make things (that help the overall mission).”
The roles (somewhat overlapping):
Team members can be remote, in-Berkeley, or hybrid. Salaries at MIRI are variable, and we try to meet each employee’s needs—we think there are (roughly) three types of candidates for these roles: junior, senior/experienced, and stellar. We expect most junior and senior salaries to fall within the $80–160k range, and a stellar candidate much more than that. (If you are e.g. a national media figure who is interested in working with MIRI to ameliorate existential risk from AI and are worth $500k/yr, let us know that.)