“Astra is Constellation’s flagship fellowship, built to accelerate AI safety research and talent.”In its own words: constellation.org
Constellation Institute's main in-person AI safety fellowship at its Berkeley research center. It funds fellows directly for five months with an $8,400 monthly stipend, plus a compute budget of about $15K a month for empirical work, and pairs them with mentors from AI safety organisations and labs.
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A fully funded five-month, in-person fellowship at Constellation's Berkeley research centre for people moving into full-time AI safety work or starting an organisation. It has an Empirical stream and a Strategy & Governance stream. Fellows are chosen through an open application for each cohort and work with mentors from groups such as Redwood Research, OpenAI, Anthropic and Coefficient Giving.
Typical grant $8k
On applying “Prior AI safety experience is not required.” constellation.org
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- Closed
Not announced - Who can apply
- Individuals
Open application calls by cohort. The January 2026 cohort is closed; the page's estimate of a next cohort 'possibly as soon as Summer 2026' has passed and no new cohort is announced. Register interest on the programme page: https://constellation.org/programs/astra