100~200 are the latest estimates I’ve heard for total number of people working on AI alignment.
I don’t have a great reference for that figure, but it’s compatible with this slide from State of AI Report 2021 which claims “fewer than 100 researchers work on AI Alignment in 7 leading AI organisations”, if you consider:
The report excluded independent alignment researchers and smaller/lesser-known AI organisations from their tally
It’s at least a few months old [1] and the AI alignment field has been growing
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[1]: I can’t tell if Benaich and Hogarth published this sometime in 2021 or at the beginning of 2022, after 2021 had ended. Either way it’s 5~18 months old.
How many people are there “in the field”? Fifty?
100~200 are the latest estimates I’ve heard for total number of people working on AI alignment.
I don’t have a great reference for that figure, but it’s compatible with this slide from State of AI Report 2021 which claims “fewer than 100 researchers work on AI Alignment in 7 leading AI organisations”, if you consider:
The report excluded independent alignment researchers and smaller/lesser-known AI organisations from their tally
It’s at least a few months old [1] and the AI alignment field has been growing
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[1]: I can’t tell if Benaich and Hogarth published this sometime in 2021 or at the beginning of 2022, after 2021 had ended. Either way it’s 5~18 months old.