“A Complete Overview of Our AI Safety Talent Pipelines (+ Interactive Visual!)” by Roman Ross
About this episode
The episode discusses the AI safety talent pipeline and its improvements.
Summary Making AI safe and good requires many people to be ready to address crucial problems. However, our current “pipelines” for finding, training, and accelerating talented individuals who could work on these problems are “leaky”, meaning there are many ways they can be improved. This post shows my full overview of the AI safety talent pipeline: where people come from, where they go to learn more, and why this is impactful. I also describe some “leaks” in the pipeline: stages that are functioning below their best level, and might be improved with some effort. As an alternative to reading this boring EA Forum post, you can instead get all of this information from this interactive visual I vibecoded. Seriously, the visual is my recommended way of reading this post. Introduction A few quick notes on how to read this post: I originally created this document as a “personal checklist” of fieldbuilding tasks that seem good to complete,[1] and I created the associated website because I thought it would be an efficient way to store that information. I am publishing this because I’ve learned a lot about fieldbuilding needs along the way, and I thought some people would [...]…
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