I’m not an AI safety specialist, but I get the sense that a lot of extra skillsets became useful over the last few years. What kind of positions would be interesting to you?
MIRI was looking for technical writers recently. Robert Miles makes youtube videos. Someone made the P(Doom) question well known enough to be mentioned in the senate. I hope there’s a few good contract lawyers looking over OpenAI right now. AISafety.Info is a collection of on-ramps, but it also takes ongoing web development and content writing work. Most organizations need operations teams and accountants no matter what they do.
You might also be surprised how much engineering and physics is a passable starting point. Again, this isn’t my field, but if you haven’t already done so it might be worth reading a couple recent ML papers and seeing if they make sense to you, or better yet if it looks like you see an idea for improvement or a next step you could jump in or try.
Put your own oxygen mask on though. Especially if you don’t have a cunning idea and can’t find a way to get started, grab a regular job and get good at that.
I’m not an AI safety specialist, but I get the sense that a lot of extra skillsets became useful over the last few years. What kind of positions would be interesting to you?
MIRI was looking for technical writers recently. Robert Miles makes youtube videos. Someone made the P(Doom) question well known enough to be mentioned in the senate. I hope there’s a few good contract lawyers looking over OpenAI right now. AISafety.Info is a collection of on-ramps, but it also takes ongoing web development and content writing work. Most organizations need operations teams and accountants no matter what they do.
You might also be surprised how much engineering and physics is a passable starting point. Again, this isn’t my field, but if you haven’t already done so it might be worth reading a couple recent ML papers and seeing if they make sense to you, or better yet if it looks like you see an idea for improvement or a next step you could jump in or try.
Put your own oxygen mask on though. Especially if you don’t have a cunning idea and can’t find a way to get started, grab a regular job and get good at that.
Sorry I don’t have a better answer.