I think it would be very misleading to say “Rohin’s AI safety plan is to hire people and have them do the work”.
Why? It’s been observed in the past that lots of people in AI safety are mostly hoping someone else will do the hard part. If there are parts of the problem which are beyond one’s own skill (which you may or may not feel is true in your case, to be fair) then the problem of successfully locating someone smart enough to do it, and mentoring them through the work, is very hard! (Plus what if they also choose the plan “find another smart person to do it”) Whether or not you think this is a true critique, I think it’s a legitimate one.
Why? It’s been observed in the past that lots of people in AI safety are mostly hoping someone else will do the hard part. If there are parts of the problem which are beyond one’s own skill (which you may or may not feel is true in your case, to be fair) then the problem of successfully locating someone smart enough to do it, and mentoring them through the work, is very hard! (Plus what if they also choose the plan “find another smart person to do it”) Whether or not you think this is a true critique, I think it’s a legitimate one.