Two related questions to get a sense of scale of the social problem. (I’m interested in any precise operationalization, as obviously the questions are underspecified.)
Roughly how many people are pushing the state of the art in AI?
My off-the-cuff answers are ~about thirty thousand, and less than a hundred people respectively. That’s from doing some googling and having spoken with AI safety researchers in the past, I’ve no particular expertise.
Two related questions to get a sense of scale of the social problem. (I’m interested in any precise operationalization, as obviously the questions are underspecified.)
Roughly how many people are pushing the state of the art in AI?
Roughly how many people work on AI alignment?
My off-the-cuff answers are ~about thirty thousand, and less than a hundred people respectively. That’s from doing some googling and having spoken with AI safety researchers in the past, I’ve no particular expertise.