Congrats all, it seems like you were wildly successful in just 1 semester of this new strategy!
I have a couple of questions:
130 in 13 weekly reading groups
= 10 people per group, that feels like a lot and maybe contributed to the high drop rate. Do you think this size was ideal?
Ran two retreats, with a total of 85 unique attendees
These seem like huge retreats compared to other university EA retreats at least, and more like mini-conferences. Was this the right size, or do you think they would have been more valuable as more selective and smaller things where the participants perhaps got to know each other better?
two weekly AI governance fellowships with 15 initial and 14 continuing participants.
This retention rate seems very high, though I imagine maybe these were mostly people already into AI gov and not representative of what a scaled-up cohort would look like. Do you plan to also expand AI governance outreach/programming next term?
Overall, I’m really glad your doing all these things and paving the way for others to follow—we’ll seek to replicate some of your success at Stanford :)
Congrats all, it seems like you were wildly successful in just 1 semester of this new strategy!
I have a couple of questions:
= 10 people per group, that feels like a lot and maybe contributed to the high drop rate. Do you think this size was ideal?
These seem like huge retreats compared to other university EA retreats at least, and more like mini-conferences. Was this the right size, or do you think they would have been more valuable as more selective and smaller things where the participants perhaps got to know each other better?
This retention rate seems very high, though I imagine maybe these were mostly people already into AI gov and not representative of what a scaled-up cohort would look like. Do you plan to also expand AI governance outreach/programming next term?
Overall, I’m really glad your doing all these things and paving the way for others to follow—we’ll seek to replicate some of your success at Stanford :)