AI Safety & Policy Expert (AI Community)

About the role

As an AI Safety & Policy Associate within the TELUS Digital AI Community, you act as the primary guardian of AI training datasets. You identify, label and mitigate risks at the data level, applying safety rules to thousands of complex scenarios so that AI models learn what is right, wrong and in a gray area. The work is remote and flexible, and pay ranges from $18 to $50 USD per hour depending on the project.

Key responsibilities

• Evaluate AI-generated responses against safety rubrics and flag bias, misinformation or prohibited content.
• Categorize types of harm such as hate speech, self-harm or illegal acts.
• Verify the factual accuracy of model claims using external sources to reduce hallucinations.
• Apply complex policy documents to edge cases where the answer is not clearly right or wrong.
• Report recurring model weaknesses to Governance Leads to help refine global safety policies.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in any field (Humanities, Social Sciences, Communications or Law preferred).
• Native-level proficiency in your primary language, including cultural nuance.
• Minimum B1 (intermediate) English to follow guidelines and log reports.
• Detail orientation and focus during repetitive, high-stakes analysis.

Hiring involves a subject-specific qualification exam and ID verification. The position is offered on an independent contractor basis, with contributors choosing their own schedule within project availability and quality requirements.