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Recommendations for People Getting into Technical AI Governance Research

In summer 2026, MIRI ran a https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Dom6E2CCaH6qxqwAY/announcing-miri-technical-governance-team-research to expand the team and identify promising early-stage technical governance researchers. To support the program, we also developed a couple of resources for our fellows. This post is a trailhead for those interested in MIRI-style technical governance work, including two reading lists (one on how to do research, and one on prior work in the field we think is worth exploring) and tips on how to do research from the team. We’re sharing these, in part, because we do not currently plan to run another fellowship in the near future.

In our experience, promising researchers in this subfield have spent significant time getting acquainted with the field before engaging with, e.g., a fellowship program or internship. This guide can be taken as our current best guess of how to spend your first couple dozen or so hours after completing https://bluedot.org/courses/ai-governance or similar, especially if you’re interested in contributing to technical governance research.

Since these resources were originally intended for one-time use, they’re not especially polished and we may not keep them up to date (although much of the material is evergreen). 

• https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1omutl0zbdfSBTLG8diD3VdvAtBvfox3ebIF6IfX0vBU/edit?pli=1&tab=t.0
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hnwVUNOfrA8ZoE-8pCrnZ8wP11aMKaRdEz2WTqKGt_o/edit?usp=sharing
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t6PYLNZjMuZCf-irY4_qRjq9Yh2adbeUgZZM0oxdKUY/edit?usp=sharing

Researchers getting into the space are also welcome to https://techgov.intelligence.org/contact!

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