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Join our team incubating the critical AI safety & security organizations needed in the age of transformative AI.
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Both roles close on 5 October 2025, Anywhere on Earth
About Catalyze Impact
Catalyze Impact is a nonprofit start-up with the mission to incubate the critical AI safety organizations needed to reduce catastrophic AI risk and help secure a flourishing future.
Our Team
Our small entrepreneurial team combines a deep caring for others and AI safety with pro-activity, and strong generalist skillsets. We are mission-driven and highly ambitious about the positive impact we aim to create.. We are committed to creating an environment where everyone in our team can thrive. We foster an open feedback culture, create space to learn and develop professionally, and have genuine care for one another. We have a culture of high ownership and a can-do mindset, where everyone sees ideas they contribute come to life, influences the organization’s direction, and is happy to jump in where needed to advance the mission.
Our Theory of Impact
AI capabilities are advancing at a remarkable pace, already surpassing expert human performance across various domains [1, 2] and on a trajectory to autonomously handle week-long tasks within 2-4 years [3]. However, this transition to having powerful AI systems won't go well by default. Close to half of AI researchers give at least a 10% probability to AI causing catastrophic outcomes such as human extinction [4], and industry leaders including OpenAI's Sam Altman, Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton, and Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio, warn of catastrophic risks from advanced AI systems [5].
The AI safety ecosystem remains critically underdeveloped for this challenge. We estimate that only a few thousand people work on AI safety. While the funding exists, there is a key bottleneck: not enough talented founders are building the AI safety organizations we urgently need to fill key gaps. We address this by making it easier for talented AI safety-focused entrepreneurs to decide on a highly impactful organization direction, and quickly get access to the network of co-founders, expert mentors, and funders that they need to make their organization a success.
Track Record & Plans
Our pilot program demonstrates our approach works. We received >200 applicants and incubated 11 organizations, with participants reporting the program either enabled the founding of their organization or accelerated their progress by an average of 11 months. These organizations are now tackling challenges ranging from AI control tooling to hardware security. We are scaling to multiple programs annually starting in 2026, each targeting the most critical gaps in the AI safety ecosystem.