CBAI Fall AI Safety Research Fellowship 2026: Fully Funded Programme With a $15,000 Stipend, Housing and Compute Support

Overview

The Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative provides an intensive, fully funded AI Safety Research Fellowship designed to help emerging researchers gain practical experience, produce meaningful research, and build careers in the safe and responsible development of artificial intelligence. The ten-week programme takes place in Cambridge, Massachusetts, covering technical and policy-oriented fields such as AI alignment, interpretability, governance, and the economics of transformative artificial intelligence.

Benefits

• A $15,000 fellowship stipend for the ten-week programme.
• Furnished accommodation for participants relocating to Cambridge.
• Free weekday lunches, dinners, snacks, and beverages.
• Twenty-four-hour access to a dedicated office workspace in Harvard Square.
• Approximately $1,500 per week in computing support through API credits and on-demand GPUs.
• Weekly individual mentorship and dedicated research-management support.
• Potential conference support and extension funding for exceptional projects.

Eligibility

• Open to promising researchers interested in AI safety, technical governance, policy, or economics.
• Participants must be able to commit to a full-time, in-person schedule in Cambridge, Massachusetts for the duration of the programme.
• Applicants need appropriate work authorization for the Fall cohort, as visa sponsorship is expected to begin with later cycles.

How to Apply

While applications for the Fall cohort have closed, interested individuals can register for future cycles by completing the update form linked below.

CBAI upcoming-cohort update form

Deadline

Applications for the Fall 2026 cohort closed on September 6, 2026. Future updates regarding upcoming cycles are expected to be released in late September.