The AI Access Initiative - General Talent Pool

If you're interested in 2AI's work but none of our open roles feel like a strong fit, we encourage you to submit your information to our General Talent Pool. We'll periodically review applications and reach out if we identify a role that may be a good match.

About The AI Access Initiative

The AI Access Initiative, incubated at Evidence Action, focuses on scaling AI-enabled ‘big bets’ to benefit tens or hundreds of millions of people in poverty in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We operate at the intersection of global development actors, top AI labs, and leading researchers to drive meaningful access to the benefits of AI for the 3.5 billion people living in poverty globally.

We create "public good," open-sourced playbooks, toolkits, and insights that define how to design and launch tractable and impactful AI-enabled programs. Our initial portfolio includes programs in AI for Agriculture and AI for Health.

Led by CEO Kanika Bahl, a founding member of Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust, and advised by Nobel Laureate Michael Kremer, Dario Amodei (CEO of Anthropic), and Kent Walker (President, Global Affairs for Alphabet and Google), we build on Evidence Action's track record of reaching 530M+ people with cost-effective, evidence-based programs across 9 countries in Africa and Asia, with a focus on last-mile delivery.

Our Approach

We're building an AI-native organization focused on designing solutions to reach tens or hundreds of millions of individuals living in poverty. Our work includes:

• Launching AI-enabled interventions to impact tens or hundreds of millions, such as:
  • Delivering AI-enabled forecasts to smallholder farmers to improve yields and earnings
  • Leveraging AI to dramatically improve medical diagnosis and treatment
  • Implementing frontier systems to identify and mitigate disease outbreaks
  • Putting personalized AI tutors into the hands of students to drive reductions in system-level educational attainment gaps
• Partnering with leading AI labs to shape technical offerings, including adapting for underrepresented languages and bandwidth constraints
• Partnering with governments in LMICs to drive regulatory changes, policy, and investments necessary to unlock beneficial use cases at national scale while mitigating downside risks of AI
• Advancing high-scoring interventions through a rigorous vetting process, including evidence reviews, cost-effectiveness analyses, risk assessments, and early operational/technical scoping

We are currently prioritizing AI-enabled weather forecasting for smallholder farmers and conducting deeper analysis on opportunities in global health.

Requirements

You might be a strong fit for the AI Access Initiative team if you:

• Bring an ownership mindset and thrive in fast-moving, ambitious environments
• Take initiative and are comfortable putting structure around ambiguity
• Focus on outcomes, not outputs
• Are a builder who enjoys solving problems and creating new systems from the ground up
• Think creatively about some of the world's hardest problems