What are the actual costs of running AISC? I participated in it some time ago, kinda participating this year again (it’s complicated). As far as I can tell, the only things that are required is some amount of organization, and then maybe a paid slack workspace. Is this just about salaries for the organizers?
In the Budget version, the organisers do the minimum job required to get the program started, but no continuous support to AISC teams during their projects and no time for evaluations and improvement for future versions of the program.
Salaries are calculated based on $7K per person per month.
Based on the minimum threshold of $28k, that would seem to offer about 2 ppl for 2 months.
What exactly is the minimum amount to organise an AISC is a bit complicated.
We could do a super budget version for under $58k which is even more streamlined. This would cut in to quality however. But the bigger problem is this (just speaking for myself):
If AISC pays enough for me to live frugally on this salary for the rest of the year, then I can come back an organise another one. (And as a bonus the world also get what ever else I do during the rest of the year, which will probably also be AI safety related.)
If that is not the case, I need to have a different primary income, and then I can’t promise I’ll be available for AISC.
Exactly what is that threshold? I don’t know. It depends on my partners income, which is also a bit uncertain.
If I’m not available, is it possible to get someone else. Maybe, I’m not sure. My role requires both organising skill and AI safety knowledge. Most people who are qualified are busy. Also a new person would have to initially put in more hours. Me and Remmelt have a lot of experience doing AISC together, which means we can get it done quicker than someone new.
We’re also fundraising on our website. aisafety.camp I think that Remmelt chose the $28k threshold, hoping we’ll get some money though other channels too. Currently we got ~5.5k donation not through Manifund.
If we get to the $28k threshold, and nothing more, we’ll try to do something approximately like a next AISC, some how. But in this case I’ll probably quit after that.
What are the actual costs of running AISC? I participated in it some time ago, kinda participating this year again (it’s complicated). As far as I can tell, the only things that are required is some amount of organization, and then maybe a paid slack workspace. Is this just about salaries for the organizers?
The answer seems to be yes.
On the manifund page it says the following:
Based on the minimum threshold of $28k, that would seem to offer about 2 ppl for 2 months.
What exactly is the minimum amount to organise an AISC is a bit complicated.
We could do a super budget version for under $58k which is even more streamlined. This would cut in to quality however. But the bigger problem is this (just speaking for myself):
If AISC pays enough for me to live frugally on this salary for the rest of the year, then I can come back an organise another one. (And as a bonus the world also get what ever else I do during the rest of the year, which will probably also be AI safety related.)
If that is not the case, I need to have a different primary income, and then I can’t promise I’ll be available for AISC.
Exactly what is that threshold? I don’t know. It depends on my partners income, which is also a bit uncertain.
If I’m not available, is it possible to get someone else. Maybe, I’m not sure. My role requires both organising skill and AI safety knowledge. Most people who are qualified are busy. Also a new person would have to initially put in more hours. Me and Remmelt have a lot of experience doing AISC together, which means we can get it done quicker than someone new.
We’re also fundraising on our website. aisafety.camp
I think that Remmelt chose the $28k threshold, hoping we’ll get some money though other channels too. Currently we got ~5.5k donation not through Manifund.
If we get to the $28k threshold, and nothing more, we’ll try to do something approximately like a next AISC, some how. But in this case I’ll probably quit after that.