Question, what level of experience are you looking for here? I assume not just people with the relevant competences to learn, but people who already have significant domain experience, given how narrow the time targets are?
We want to find people with diverse skills and backgrounds to work in or with the Taskforce, to catalytically advance AI safety this year with a global impact. We’re particularly interested in building out “safety infrastructure” and developing risk assessments that can inform policymakers and spur global coordination on AI safety. For example, this would include experience running evals for LLMs, experience with model pretraining, finetuning, or RL, and experience in technical research in the societal impacts of models. But we’re open to hearing what should be done beyond this as well.
They mostly want people who are already skilled up and can hit the ground running, is my understanding, although it is always good to have options. The long term matters but the short term is necessary to get to the long term.
Beyond the people with the right qualifications to get directly involved right away e.g. via the form, are there “supporting role” tasks/efforts that interested individuals of different skillsets and locations could help out with? Baseline examples could be volunteering to do advocacy, translation, ops, making introductions, doing ad-hoc website/software development, summarizing/transcribing/editing audio/video, etc.? Is there a recommended discord/slack/other where this kind of support is being coordinated?
Thanks. Yeah, makes sense for official involvement to be pretty formal and restricted.
More in a “just in case someone reads this and has something to share” I’d like to extend the question to unofficial efforts others might be thinking about or coordinating around.
It would also be good if those who do get involved formally feel like there’s enough outside interest to be worth their time to make informal requests for help, like “if you have 10h/week I’m looking for a volunteer research assistant to help me keep up with relevant papers/news leading up to the summit.”
Question, what level of experience are you looking for here? I assume not just people with the relevant competences to learn, but people who already have significant domain experience, given how narrow the time targets are?
From Zvi’s linked Google form in the post:
They mostly want people who are already skilled up and can hit the ground running, is my understanding, although it is always good to have options. The long term matters but the short term is necessary to get to the long term.
Beyond the people with the right qualifications to get directly involved right away e.g. via the form, are there “supporting role” tasks/efforts that interested individuals of different skillsets and locations could help out with? Baseline examples could be volunteering to do advocacy, translation, ops, making introductions, doing ad-hoc website/software development, summarizing/transcribing/editing audio/video, etc.? Is there a recommended discord/slack/other where this kind of support is being coordinated?
Not that I am aware of at this time. Government taskforces tend to be more formal than that. But I don’t know for sure.
Thanks. Yeah, makes sense for official involvement to be pretty formal and restricted.
More in a “just in case someone reads this and has something to share” I’d like to extend the question to unofficial efforts others might be thinking about or coordinating around.
It would also be good if those who do get involved formally feel like there’s enough outside interest to be worth their time to make informal requests for help, like “if you have 10h/week I’m looking for a volunteer research assistant to help me keep up with relevant papers/news leading up to the summit.”