Community Initiative · Cohort 1 Applications Open
Youth for Responsible AI is a global community of students and young people building real knowledge, real skills, and a real voice in how artificial intelligence develops, and who it serves.
5–7 hrs/week · fully remote · free to join · LinkedIn-verified role · letter of recommendation on completion
Our mission
To build a generation of young people who are informed, equipped, and empowered to shape how AI is developed, governed, and used, across every community, field, and country.
Incident of the day · #1612
South Africa’s draft national AI policy, a document meant to guide how AI is governed across the country, reportedly contained academic citations that turned out to be fabricated. The references are believed to have been generated by an AI tool and were not caught before the draft circulated publicly.
Why it matters: The rules being written for AI are being shaped, in part, by AI, and the errors aren’t always caught. Understanding these failures isn’t optional anymore. It’s how you stay ahead of them.
The fellowship
Every fellow picks one of four tracks, commits 5–7 hours a week, and builds a real portfolio of work over 12 weeks.
Turn AI incidents into short videos and carousels that actually get watched. 1 vertical video + 1 carousel per week. Best for: comms, journalism, film, anyone who can hold a camera.
Read real frameworks, the EU AI Act, NIST, national bills, and write 2-page memos a lawyer or journalist could actually use. 1 memo every 2 weeks. Best for: law, policy, political science.
Grow the network. Bring in new contributors, build campus chapters, run AMAs. Best for: marketers, organizers, the person who knows everyone.
Maintain the incident tracker and work on real projects inside Rule26 AI and GhostCite. Top performers become GhostCite ambassadors. Best for: CS, data, design, product.
Cohort 1 · July 1 – Aug 29
We look for people who ship, who are curious, and who bring a perspective we don’t already have. You don’t need prior experience in AI, you need the drive to learn it and the discipline to show up every week.
Cohort 1 · closes June 25, 2026
7 spots · fully remote · open globally · free to join