Commenting to signal appreciation despite this post currently being low upvotes after a while. The number of researchers currently working in AI is a datapoint that I often brink up in conversation about the importance of going into AI safety and the potential impact once could have. So far I’ve been saying there are between a hundred and a thousand AI safety researchers, which seems like I was correct, but it’s more strong if I can say the current best estimate I found is around 200. Thanks.
Commenting to signal appreciation despite this post currently being low upvotes after a while. The number of researchers currently working in AI is a datapoint that I often brink up in conversation about the importance of going into AI safety and the potential impact once could have. So far I’ve been saying there are between a hundred and a thousand AI safety researchers, which seems like I was correct, but it’s more strong if I can say the current best estimate I found is around 200.
Thanks.
I agree. Having an idea of how many AI safety researchers there are is important for knowing how neglected the problem area is.
Note that the EA Forum version has more upvotes because this is a crosspost from there.