Agreed it’s really difficult for a lot of the work. You’ve probably seen it already but Dan Hendrycks has done a lot of work explaining academic research areas in terms of x-risk (e.g. this and this paper). Jacob Steinhardt’s blog and field overview and Sam Bowman’s Twitter are also good for context.
I second this, that it’s difficult to summarize AI-safety-relevant academic work for LW audiences. I want to highlight the symmetric difficulty of trying to summarize the mountain of blog-post-style work on the AF for academics.
In short, both groups have steep reading/learning curves that are under-appreciated when you’re already familiar with it all.
Agreed it’s really difficult for a lot of the work. You’ve probably seen it already but Dan Hendrycks has done a lot of work explaining academic research areas in terms of x-risk (e.g. this and this paper). Jacob Steinhardt’s blog and field overview and Sam Bowman’s Twitter are also good for context.
I second this, that it’s difficult to summarize AI-safety-relevant academic work for LW audiences. I want to highlight the symmetric difficulty of trying to summarize the mountain of blog-post-style work on the AF for academics.
In short, both groups have steep reading/learning curves that are under-appreciated when you’re already familiar with it all.