Public AI Fellow
Metagov is a 501(c)3 nonprofit research-to-infrastructure laboratory focused on community sovereignty, network governance, and statecraft in the age of AI. It cultivates tools, practices, and communities that enable self-governance in the digital age, working with researchers, practitioners, and online communities (e.g., DAOs, online governance experiments) rather than traditional commercial clients.
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About Metagov
Metagov is a nonprofit research-to-infrastructure laboratory, founded in 2019 out of a Harvard Law School seminar on "Governing Virtual Worlds" and spun out as an independent 501(c)3 nonprofit in January 2020. Its mission is to cultivate tools, practices, and communities that enable self-governance in the digital age, working toward a governance layer for the internet that is empowering, creative, interconnected, and accountable. The organization operates through three interdependent pillars: Community (a membership-based network of researchers and practitioners), Research (grant-funded projects led by Research Directors), and Operations (participatory organizational infrastructure). Metagov runs a weekly research seminar, community calls, and orientation sessions, and incubates projects such as DAOstar (a standards body for the DAO ecosystem), KOI Pond/GovBase (a research dataset project), Interoperable Deliberative Tools, and Public AI (focused on a new political economy for AI). It serves researchers, practitioners, online communities, DAOs, and protocol ecosystems, and is funded by a range of foundations and crypto-ecosystem organizations including the Ethereum Foundation, Filecoin Foundation, Optimism Collective, Mina Foundation, Arbitrum, Aragon, ENS, and NEAR, among others.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Support the growth of Public AI Switzerland, advance the Public AI Inference Utility and Apertus deployment, build relationships across Swiss public institutions and industry, contribute to AI dialogue and summit preparation, and provide political and operational advice for consortium-building.
Requirements
- Strong operational instincts and ability to coordinate complex workstreams.
- Existing connections or credibility within Switzerland's AI, research, policy, or public sector communities.
- Familiarity with Swiss technology, policy, and research ecosystems or ability to grow such a network.
- Working familiarity with open source AI topics including foundation models, inference infrastructure, and open weights.
- Working familiarity with AI governance, digital sovereignty, and public infrastructure policy.
- Interest in AI, geopolitics, public infrastructure, or technology governance.
- Experience in diplomacy, international technology collaborations, foundation models, or national AI strategies is a bonus.
- Working proficiency in German, French, or Italian alongside English is a bonus.
Responsibilities
- Support the operational growth of Public AI Switzerland and coordinate with founding partners and cantonal and federal stakeholders.
- Advance the Public AI Inference Utility and support deployment of Apertus.
- Build trust and relationships across Switzerland's public sector, research institutions, and AI industry.
- Align Swiss interests with an international coalition focused on public AI.
- Contribute to the Swiss National AI Dialogue and related public deliberation efforts.
- Support preparation for Public AI's participation in the Swiss AI Summit, including programming and partner engagement.
- Provide political and operational advice for consortium-building efforts.
- Collaborate with engineering teams and Public AI Switzerland cooperative members.