I don’t have insider information, but I think that Aligned AI, Anthropic, ARC, CLR, Conjecture, DeepMind, Encultured AI, FAR AI, MIRI, OpenAI, and Redwood Research (not an all-inclusive list) could all probably offer visas to employees. The MATS Program currently assists scholars in obtaining US B-1 visas or ESTAs and UK Standard Visitor visas. Are you asking whether there should be an organization that aims to hire people to work long-term on AI safety niches that these organizations do not fill, and if so, which niches?
That might be interesting, but I was wondering if one organization could be “the visa people” who do most of the visa-related work for all the organizations you listed. But maybe this work requires little time or is difficult to outsource?
Rethink Priorities and Effective Ventures are fiscal sponsors for several small AI safety organizations and this role could include handling their visas. There might be room for more such fiscal sponsor charities, as Rethink Charity are closing down their fiscal sponsorship program and Players Philanthropy Fund isn’t EA-specific.
Could/should there be an organization that helps grant visas to people working on AI safety?
I don’t have insider information, but I think that Aligned AI, Anthropic, ARC, CLR, Conjecture, DeepMind, Encultured AI, FAR AI, MIRI, OpenAI, and Redwood Research (not an all-inclusive list) could all probably offer visas to employees. The MATS Program currently assists scholars in obtaining US B-1 visas or ESTAs and UK Standard Visitor visas. Are you asking whether there should be an organization that aims to hire people to work long-term on AI safety niches that these organizations do not fill, and if so, which niches?
That might be interesting, but I was wondering if one organization could be “the visa people” who do most of the visa-related work for all the organizations you listed. But maybe this work requires little time or is difficult to outsource?
Rethink Priorities and Effective Ventures are fiscal sponsors for several small AI safety organizations and this role could include handling their visas. There might be room for more such fiscal sponsor charities, as Rethink Charity are closing down their fiscal sponsorship program and Players Philanthropy Fund isn’t EA-specific.