I saw that guide a while back and it was helpful, but it helped more with “what” than “how”—although it still does how better than most guides. For the most part, I’m concerned about things I’m missing that are obvious if you have the right context. Like that given my goals, there are better things to be prioritizing, or that I should be applying to X for achieving Y.
I’ve been thinking about it for a while since posting it, and I think I agree with you on that applying for a Master’s is the best route for me. (By the way, did you mean the universities the article mentions in the “Short-term Policy Research Options” subheading? I didn’t find any other).
One could also do academic research at any university, though it helps to be somewhere with enough people working on related issues to form a critical mass. Examples of universities with this sort of critical mass include the University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, UC Berkeley, MIT, the University of Washington, and Stanford.
While that passage isn’t directly about where to do your masters, they are places where there are people who can support you in learning about AI safety research.
Thank you.
I saw that guide a while back and it was helpful, but it helped more with “what” than “how”—although it still does how better than most guides. For the most part, I’m concerned about things I’m missing that are obvious if you have the right context. Like that given my goals, there are better things to be prioritizing, or that I should be applying to X for achieving Y.
I’ve been thinking about it for a while since posting it, and I think I agree with you on that applying for a Master’s is the best route for me. (By the way, did you mean the universities the article mentions in the “Short-term Policy Research Options” subheading? I didn’t find any other).
When it comes to chosing universities there’s:
While that passage isn’t directly about where to do your masters, they are places where there are people who can support you in learning about AI safety research.