The Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) is a nonprofit based in Berkeley, California, focused on helping humanity make smart and sober decisions on the topic of smarter-than-human AI. Our efforts are largely split between technical governance research and communications. In the wake of the success of Nate and Eliezer’s book, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies , MIRI has an opportunity to push through a lot of doors that have cracked open, and roll a lot of snowballs down a lot of hills. 2026 is going to be a year of ambitious experimentation, trying lots of new ways to deliver MIRI ideas and content to newly receptive audiences. This means ramping up our capacity, particularly in the arena of communications. Our team did an admirable job in 2025 of handling all of the challenges of launching and promoting a book (including helping Nate and Eliezer assemble the supplemental materials for it, which is an artifact that we expect to be extremely useful, going forward). But we’ve both a) had to let some things slide a little bit, in the scramble, and want to get the house back in order, and b) need more hands for the upcoming push. Below is something like a list of roles or domains. They aren’t exactly job descriptions, but they’re close. It’s possible that we might hire one person for each of the roles below; it’s possible that someone might come on board and own two or three of them (many of them synergize). This is, essentially, our wish list—each of these things will ultimately either be owned by an existing team member, hired for, or (if we can’t find the right person) triaged.