One thing I find myself doing increasingly in the AI policy community is connecting people to offices in DC. This is good, but I worry that it leads us to have path-dependency on who people like me know and the logic that we have about where to start, rather than prospecting for new offices that we don’t know as well. It’s plausible that everyone doing this should run rand(535) against a list of all the Senators and Representatives a few times a month and go meet a truly random office and see what happens.
One thing I find myself doing increasingly in the AI policy community is connecting people to offices in DC. This is good, but I worry that it leads us to have path-dependency on who people like me know and the logic that we have about where to start, rather than prospecting for new offices that we don’t know as well. It’s plausible that everyone doing this should run rand(535) against a list of all the Senators and Representatives a few times a month and go meet a truly random office and see what happens.