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.
These proposals all seem robustly good. What would you think of adding an annual AI existential safety conference?
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.