Senior Economist, Effects of Transformative AI

Develop economic models analyzing how advanced AI systems could create systemic risks, labor displacement, and power concentration.
- Build scenarios for economic disruptions from rapid AI advancement, including deflation, labor displacement, and market concentration.
- Model how AI-driven productivity changes interact with existing economic structures to create inequality or instability.
- Identify early warning indicators for financial system shocks, economic instability, and deteriorating living standards.
- Translate complex economic analyses into actionable insights for policymakers and multilateral institutions.
- Requires PhD in Economics with expertise in labor and international economics; strong publication record and ability to communicate complex concepts to non-specialists.

The Future of Life Foundation aims to steer transformative technology towards benefiting life and away from extreme large-scale risks. To do so, they aim to identify especially promising ideas for new organisations, cause those entities to be founded, and incubate them.