Generator Residency

Yes. Applications for the winter 2027 round are open from October 12, 2026, until the end of the day on November 1, 2026, Anywhere on Earth (AoE).

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Everyone receives a final decision by November 25, 2026. If you're invited to the work test or interview, you'll hear from us earlier, since those stages run through mid-November. International applicants who apply early can be considered for an early decision (see the visa question below).

Applications open on October 12, 2026, and close at the end of the day on November 1, 2026, Anywhere on Earth (AoE). After you apply, there are three stages. We first review initial applications. Candidates who advance then complete a work test (about 2 hours), sent out by November 9, followed by a short interview (about 20 minutes) in mid-November. We let you know promptly each time you advance, so if you reach the work test or interview, you'll hear from us before the final decision date. All applicants receive a final decision by November 25, 2026.

No. Every free-response answer must be written by you, without AI writing, rewriting, or polishing (including Grammarly-style tools and AI translation). Your answers are how we understand how you think, and we can and will reject applications with AI-written answers. You're not graded on prose, so short, rough answers in imperfect English are completely fine. You can still use AI for high-level feedback on your application.

There is one exception. If a disability makes it impossible or impractical to type your answers yourself and you write with assistive technology (for example, dictating and using AI to clean up the transcript), email us at contact [at] generatorresidency.org before you submit and we'll exempt you from this policy. The exemption covers getting your words into text, and the ideas in your answers must still be entirely your own.

The core residency runs for 12 weeks, from January 18 to April 9, 2027. Residents spend the first few weeks building context and getting matched, and by mid-February every resident is paired with a mentor and a project or organization. The rest of the residency is project execution.

Selected residents are then invited into a three-month extension, in person at Constellation until late May and remote until early July 2027.

We help residents land a full-time role at an AI safety organization, spin their project into a new organization, or hand it off to one that can keep it going.

Selected residents are also invited into a three-month extension period to keep building, in person at the Constellation office until late May and remotely after that. Funding and office access continue for the in-person part of the extension.

Yes. Each resident receives a fellowship stipend of $8,500 per month. Some Embedded track residents may instead be employed during the residency, with a roughly equivalent gross salary in place of the stipend. Kairos also covers travel to and from Berkeley.

Residents invited into the extension period continue to receive the stipend while they take part in person, until late May.

Generator takes place at the Constellation office in Berkeley, California. Residents are expected to take part in person for the full core three months.

Residents invited into the extension period continue in person until late May, and remotely after that.

If you have a special circumstance, please apply anyway and let us know.

Yes. We welcome applicants from anywhere in the world. For most international applicants, we'll be able to sponsor J-1 visas for the program's duration (though we can't guarantee obtaining such a visa).

If you're already in the US on a student visa (e.g., F-1), you may be able to participate through your existing work authorization. Reach out to us and we'll help figure out the best path.

Because visa processing takes time, we strongly encourage international applicants who will need sponsorship to apply early, ideally before October 26, so we can consider them for an early decision. We can still consider international applicants who apply after that.

The first few weeks focus on orientation, building context, and matching, with two rounds of project matching in early and mid-February. By mid-February, every resident is paired with a mentor and either a project or an organization, depending on their track. Residents on the Self-Directed track work on projects from our list or their own ideas, typically with other residents. Residents on the Embedded track join an AI safety organization or work closely with a mentor.

Generator is designed as a launchpad into full-time generalist roles in AI safety: program managers, fieldbuilders, operators, chiefs of staff, chief operating officers, and founders.

During and after the program we actively help residents land these roles, turn their projects into new organizations, or hand them off to existing ones.

No. Generator is for builders, operators, and organizers: people who want to run programs, ship infrastructure, and start organizations, not write papers. If your main goal is to do technical AI safety research, programs like MATS, ERA, Astra, SPAR, and ARENA are better fits, and aisafety.com maintains a broader database of opportunities in the field. You're welcome to have a research background (many of our best generalists do), but the residency itself is about execution, not investigation.