Frame Fellowship

I run Frame Fellowship, a residential program that trains content creators to make AI safety topics legible to mass audiences. We select creators with early traction and put them through an intensive program in San Francisco with full financial support, mentorship from researchers and established creators, production infrastructure, and direct access to the AI safety ecosystem.
Our first cohort ran Jan-March 2026, where we received 150+ applications, interest from many organizations in the space, and selected 13. Fellows were award-winning filmmakers, journalists from leading newsrooms, and communicators who have made the transition to educating and preparing their communities for what's coming.

Some success stories-
1. Mateus De Souza
Mateus grew from 1,500 to 5,000+ followers and surged from 20,000 to 200,000 average views per video. He launched a YouTube channel focused on AI politics and industry accountability, got hired by Seismic for content strategy, and secured Future of Life Institute funding to continue full-time for a year after the fellowship. He also got a contract from BlueDot and is now in-trial with 80000 Hours for a new show similar to AI in Context.
2. Veronica Hylak
Veronica's videos on AI psychosis led three universities to reach out directly. A student built their thesis on preventing AI psychosis in system design specifically because of her content. She was invited to address university programs on AI safety risks and secured a contract from CAIS.
3. Michael Trazzi
Michael organised a 200+ person protest outside Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI, attended by Scott Alexander, Nate Soares, and Daniel Kokotajlo, and covered by the New York Times and The Atlantic. His SB-1047 video is now a required resource in a UC Berkeley policy course. He is building "Stop the AI Race" into a sustained movement targeting a 1,000-person protest.

We also made headlines in The Washington Post, Transformer AI, and SF Standard.
mentors involved- Rob Miles, AI in Context (Chana Messinger), Species (Drew Spartz), Petr Lebedev, Doom Debates (Liron Shapira), Max Winga (Control AI) and many others.
advisors- Austin Chen (Cofounder and advisor), Drew Spartz (YouTuber and Cofounder of Non-linear), Ryan Kidd (MATS)\

• a lot of awesome people interested in getting involved.

We are raising funding for cohort 2. This time we are increasing the size and quality of the program, and starting 2 tracks for the program-
1. Independent Track- Creators build their own messaging and trusted audiences.**2. Amplifier Track-** fellows get embedded within impactful organizations to help their reach. We already have MATS, Apart Research, Andon Labs, Humans in Control, AI Digest, CAIS signed up.

we already have some promising applications from ex-journalists, top creators, and marketers- but looking to raise more funds before mass-marketing.

What we're aiming for in the next year:

• 120+ vetted communicators trained, with trusted communities, increasing AI salience across millions more people
• Become the first point of contact for AIS orgs and companies that want to communicate with audiences at scale.
• Incubate projects that make AI safety a more salient issue and build a greater public movement.