Building the security & verification backbone for frontier AI
An 8-week, fully funded research & engineering programme in Cambridge, UK, where residents take on concrete cybersecurity & hardware projects to mitigate the risks of frontier AI.
Our mission: back the people securing frontier AI via cybersecurity and hardware-enabled verification, before its capabilities outpace our defenses.
Why this residency
Frontier AI capabilities are advancing faster than frontier AI security
Increasingly capable AI models are being deployed more widely than ever before, and the hardware verification and cyber security of frontier AI has not kept pace. Securing the ever growing attack surface for frontier AI across internal and external deployments is one of the hardest and most consequential open problems in the field.
The Frontier AI Security residency (FASR) backs engineers and researchers to tackle concrete problems here: verifying what AI compute is doing, keeping models and systems secure, and building the mechanisms that let claims about a system be checked rather than trusted.
Tackle open, hard problems at the frontier of AI security & verification
Residents will work directly with our expert mentors from leading AI hardware and cyber security teams on concrete projects, building deep expertise across both the domains and a portfolio of outputs. We want to back talent across hardware security, cyber security, and policy.
The residency is a chance to take on genuinely open problems, with ERA providing the infrastructure so you can focus on the work that matters. The field is still emerging: you could be one of the few people working in it, shaping both its direction and the trajectory of advanced AI.
Transformative research & engineering work doesn’t happen in isolation
ERA has run programmes in Cambridge for over half a decade. We've learnt that breakthrough work emerges from people who are embedded in a thriving intellectual community, including the spontaneous conversations and spontaneous collaborations this brings.
Over two months, you will be immersed in the security community, building strong connections within the cohort and throughout the wider field. Our residents work and live alongside each other, and frequently cross over with our partner organizations.
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