I tried doing a Fermi estimation of the impact I would have if I worked on AI safety, and I realized it wasn’t easy to do with only a calculator. So I build a website which does this Fermi estimation given your beliefs about AGI, AI safety, and your impact on AI safety progress.
This tool focuses on technical work, and assumes that progress on AGI and progress on AI safety are independent. This is obviously an approximation that is vastly inaccurate, but for now I don’t think of a simple way of taking into account the fact that advanced AI could speed up AI safety progress. Other limitations are outlined on the website.
What do you think of this tool? Do you think of a way it could be improved?
Fermi estimation of the impact you might have working on AI safety
Cross-posted here: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/widWpunQMfuNTCYE3/fermi-estimation-of-the-impact-you-might-have-working-on-ai
I tried doing a Fermi estimation of the impact I would have if I worked on AI safety, and I realized it wasn’t easy to do with only a calculator. So I build a website which does this Fermi estimation given your beliefs about AGI, AI safety, and your impact on AI safety progress.
You can try it out here: https://xriskcalculator.vercel.app/
This tool focuses on technical work, and assumes that progress on AGI and progress on AI safety are independent. This is obviously an approximation that is vastly inaccurate, but for now I don’t think of a simple way of taking into account the fact that advanced AI could speed up AI safety progress. Other limitations are outlined on the website.
What do you think of this tool? Do you think of a way it could be improved?