I’ve recently talked to students at Harvard and about convincing people about alignment (I’m imagining cs/math/physics majors) and how that’s hard because it’s a little inconvenient to be convinced. There were a couple of bottlenecks here:
There’s ~80 people signed up for a “coffee with an x-risk” person talk but only 5 very busy people who are competent enough to give those one-on-ones.
There are many people who have friends/roommates/classmates, but don’t know how to approach the conversation or do it effectively.
For both, training people to do that and creating curriculums/workshops would be useful. I don’t think you can create this without going out and trying it out on real, intelligent people.
This could then be used for capability researchers in general.
Thanks!:)
I’ve recently talked to students at Harvard and about convincing people about alignment (I’m imagining cs/math/physics majors) and how that’s hard because it’s a little inconvenient to be convinced. There were a couple of bottlenecks here:
There’s ~80 people signed up for a “coffee with an x-risk” person talk but only 5 very busy people who are competent enough to give those one-on-ones.
There are many people who have friends/roommates/classmates, but don’t know how to approach the conversation or do it effectively.
For both, training people to do that and creating curriculums/workshops would be useful. I don’t think you can create this without going out and trying it out on real, intelligent people.
This could then be used for capability researchers in general.