Even if new people’s impact isn’t downstream of research, the inability to contribute to research significantly hinders their progress, because potential mentors and collaborators won’t benefit from working with them, and they generally get fewer opportunities to advance their careers.
Yeah this argument applies much less to policy/communications work.
I agree that you don’t need 5+ years of research to conntribute, but I expect that at some point soon, if you don’t have some minimum amount of context on AI safety, your job (managing a bunch of LLM agents) can just be automated by an LLM agent.
and they generally get fewer opportunities to advance their careers.
I don’t know what this means? Like, they won’t get invited to talk to policy makers? Or won’t be successful writers informing people about the risks? Are you talking about lab employment here?
I agree that you (hopefully) won’t get that many new lab employees out of recent recruitment efforts, but that’s a plus not a minus!
Even if new people’s impact isn’t downstream of research, the inability to contribute to research significantly hinders their progress, because potential mentors and collaborators won’t benefit from working with them, and they generally get fewer opportunities to advance their careers.
Yeah this argument applies much less to policy/communications work.
I agree that you don’t need 5+ years of research to conntribute, but I expect that at some point soon, if you don’t have some minimum amount of context on AI safety, your job (managing a bunch of LLM agents) can just be automated by an LLM agent.
I don’t know what this means? Like, they won’t get invited to talk to policy makers? Or won’t be successful writers informing people about the risks? Are you talking about lab employment here?
I agree that you (hopefully) won’t get that many new lab employees out of recent recruitment efforts, but that’s a plus not a minus!