Non-Trivial

Non-Trivial is an online fellowship for high schoolers to start an impactful research or policy project. You'll join a world-class community and learn from speakers like AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio and philosopher Peter Singer. 📅 Early applications close 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟑𝟏𝐬𝐭!

As a teenager, Isaac Newton invented calculus. Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein at age 18. Many people miss out on opportunities during their youth because they lack confidence or knowledge. What is the best advice you would give your 16-year-old self today?

While your peers are posting selfies on the beach, you can gain valuable experience conducting research, advocating for policy changes, or building new technologies to reduce suffering. Choose a future you can be proud of.

$500 scholarship and $30,000 funding for world-changing projects. Join the Non-trivial fellowship – an 8-week online summer program to help you tackle one of humanity’s greatest challenges.

Nearly 50% of AI researchers put the odds of catastrophic harm from advanced artificial intelligence (AI) at greater than 1 in 10. Protect humanity from the risks from AI, so we can reap its benefits.

We now face grave risks: climate change, biological threats, and advanced AI. Our choices will determine whether human history is beginning or ending.

Expert forecasters predict a 38% chance of a global catastrophe this century (Besiroglu, 2018). Join our fellowship to help protect humanity from unprecedented risks from emerging technology.

Advancements in synthetic biology could help bad actors develop a virus that is as infectious as COVID-19 and as lethal as Smallpox.

Launch your own world-changing project. Get expert guidance and up to $15,000 in funding (total of $30,000) to help you get started.

Many of the world’s most pressing problems aren’t widely known or worked on. Fellows receive expert guidance to research and work on problems they think are the most pressing.

At just 17, Jason flew to Geneva to meet policymakers and co-authored a report for the United Nations. You could too.

Climate change could cause societal instability, devastation of ecosystems, widespread poverty, and an increase in the severity of other global threats like manufactured pandemics, AI risks, and nuclear warfare.

Newton and other prodigies shared a common trait: impatience with the status quo. Rather than waiting for permission, they took action.

AI may have effects on society larger than the Industrial Revolution. Yet, the number of people working full time to align advanced AI systems with human values could barely fill a lecture hall. You can help.

Choose your cause. Get up to $15,000 in funding and expert guidance to solve it. Apply for our online fellowship for teenagers.

At age 18, Mary Shelley started writing Frankenstein. Shelley and other prodigies shared a common trait: rather than waiting for permission, they took action. You shouldn't either. Apply to our fellowship to start changing the world.

Choose your cause. Get up to $15,000 in funding and expert guidance to solve it. Apply for our online fellowship for teenagers.

Take action. There's no age requirement to change the world. Apply for our fellowship today.

Tackle real global issues with our fellowship. $30,000 in funding. Deadline: June 11, 2023.

Do you want to tackle global issues like climate change, pandemics, and threats from artificial intelligence? Over 8 weeks in our online fellowship, you’ll get expert guidance to help you tackle one of humanity’s greatest challenges. Plus, there's $30,000 in funding available.