“To be clear, I think this is a good thing! I respect your disagreement here. MATS has tried to run AI safety strategy workshops and reading groups many times in the past, but this has generally had low engagement relative to our seminar series”
I suspect that achieving high-engagement will be hard because fellows have to compete for extension funding.
“To be clear, I think this is a good thing! I respect your disagreement here. MATS has tried to run AI safety strategy workshops and reading groups many times in the past, but this has generally had low engagement relative to our seminar series”
I suspect that achieving high-engagement will be hard because fellows have to compete for extension funding.
True, but we accepted 75% of all scholars into the 6-month extension last program, so the pressure might not be that large now.
What percentage applied?