Senior Freelance Consultant, AI Safety

Essential:

• →Experience in trust and safety, online harms, or a closely related field such as violence prevention, safeguarding, or public health, with the ability to apply that knowledge to AI systems.
• →Demonstrated experience designing research, evaluation frameworks, or interventions for harm categories such as violent extremism, CSEA, self-harm and crisis, or targeted violence.
• →The ability to translate real world knowledge of how a harm works into a way of testing whether an AI system handles it safely.
• →Comfort and demonstrated resilience working with highly sensitive or graphic content (violence, extremist material, crisis content), with awareness of wellbeing practices for this kind of work.
• →Strong written communication, able to produce credible, non promotional material for technical and government audiences.
• →Sound judgement working with ambiguity and sensitive material.
• →Availability for a close to full time commitment over approximately 6 weeks.
• →Willingness to undertake relevant security clearance procedures if required by the engagement.

Desirable, genuine depth in one or more of the following: 

• →Model safety, red teaming, or adversarial evaluation of LLMs or other AI systems.
• →Understanding of LLM architecture, safety tooling, or trust and safety policy.
• →Child safety evaluation, teen safety product work, or grooming and CSEA detection.
• →Intervention or diversion programme design that can transfer to AI mediated interventions.
• →Government or regulatory engagement, such as briefing officials or supporting policy submissions.
• →An academic or applied background in radicalisation studies, forensic psychology, or violence risk assessment.
• →Taxonomy or classifier development, including how testing data feeds a classifier.