We get a lot of email. These instructions help us respond to the right people faster — please read the section relevant to you before getting in touch.
Before emailing, please:
Only email us if you have specific questions not answered by the website. We cannot respond to generic expressions of interest.
If you do email, please include:
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Emails without this code may not receive a response.Check the Vacancies page first — postdoctoral positions are listed there as they arise, including TAIG-funded fellowships.
If no position is currently advertised and you want to make a speculative enquiry, please send:
[TSG-POSTDOC]We welcome visiting researchers and PhD students. Funding is typically secured by the visitor, but we can support visa applications and provide workspace.
Please send:
[TSG-VISIT]If you are a current Oxford student there are several ways to get involved — see the Vacancies page for a summary of options.
Please email from your Oxford address and include:
[TSG-OXFORD]We actively collaborate with researchers, think tanks, government bodies, and civil society organisations. Please tell us:
[TSG-COLLAB]We are grateful for support from individuals, foundations, and institutions who share our belief that rigorous, independent research on AI safety and governance matters.
We welcome enquiries about:
Before emailing, you are also welcome to use the support form on our homepage — it is the quickest way to tell us about your interest and we will follow up personally.
If you prefer to email directly, please include:
TSG Lab is based at the University of Oxford. Formal donations are processed through Oxford's giving infrastructure — we will discuss the right mechanism with you directly.
[TSG-FUND]Please include your publication or outlet, your deadline, and the topic you would like to discuss.
[TSG-PRESS]If your enquiry does not fit any of the categories above, you are welcome to email us — but we cannot promise a response.
To show you have read this far: search for the Wikipedia page of Claude Shannon — the mathematician who invented information theory and is the reason the word "bit" exists.
Find the sentence on that page that describes his unusual collection of unicycles and paste it into your subject line, followed by [TSG-GENERAL].
If you can find it, you are probably the kind of person we would enjoy hearing from.