Currently, it seems that the AI Safety Unconference and maybe the Stanford Existential Risks Conference are filling this niche. I think neither of these conferences is optimizing entirely for the AI safety researcher experience; the former might aim to appeal to NeurIPS attendees outside the field of AI safety, and the latter includes speakers on a variety of x-risks. I think a dedicated AI safety conference/​unconference detached from existing ML conferences might be valuable. I also think boosting the presence of AI safety at NeurIPS or other ML conferences might be good, but I haven’t thought deeply about this.
Currently, it seems that the AI Safety Unconference and maybe the Stanford Existential Risks Conference are filling this niche. I think neither of these conferences is optimizing entirely for the AI safety researcher experience; the former might aim to appeal to NeurIPS attendees outside the field of AI safety, and the latter includes speakers on a variety of x-risks. I think a dedicated AI safety conference/​unconference detached from existing ML conferences might be valuable. I also think boosting the presence of AI safety at NeurIPS or other ML conferences might be good, but I haven’t thought deeply about this.