Request for Proposal: Checks and Balances to Empower Citizens in an Automated Society

• Design the institutional infrastructure of an AI-era democracy.
• Develop checks and balances for the AI era, improve epistemics and coordination, and conduct foundational work on AI and power.
• Support research and policy including threat modelling, legal research, and legislative drafting.
• Develop technical guardrails, design election security defences, and build oversight tools.

This role creates positive change by designing the institutional infrastructure for an AI-era democracy, ensuring checks and balances to empower citizens and protect democratic processes from AI-related risks.

• Expertise in AI governance, policy, or related fields.
• Experience in threat modelling, legal research, or legislative drafting.
• Ability to design technical guardrails and oversight tools.
• Strong research and analytical skills.

Compensation and benefits are not specified in the posting.

Effective Institutions Project provides funding for designing the institutional infrastructure of an AI-era democracy, focusing on checks and balances, improving epistemics and coordination, and foundational work on AI and power.