Crucial questions for AI safety field-builders:
What is the most important problem in your field? If you aren’t working on it, why?
Where is everyone else dropping the ball and why?
Are you addressing a gap in the talent pipeline?
What resources are abundant? What resources are scarce? How can you turn abundant resources into scarce resources?
How will you know you are succeeding? How will you know you are failing?
What is the “user experience” of my program?
Who would you copy if you could copy anyone? How could you do this?
Am I better than the counterfactual?
Who are your clients? What do they want?
Crucial questions for AI safety field-builders:
What is the most important problem in your field? If you aren’t working on it, why?
Where is everyone else dropping the ball and why?
Are you addressing a gap in the talent pipeline?
What resources are abundant? What resources are scarce? How can you turn abundant resources into scarce resources?
How will you know you are succeeding? How will you know you are failing?
What is the “user experience” of my program?
Who would you copy if you could copy anyone? How could you do this?
Am I better than the counterfactual?
Who are your clients? What do they want?