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I'm launching AI Lab Watch. I collected actions for frontier AI labs to improve AI safety, then evaluated some frontier labs accordingly.
It's a collection of information on what labs should do and what labs are doing. It also has some adjacent resources, including a list...
We've merged the newsletters from aisafety.training and aisafety.events to create one clean, comprehensive weekly email covering newly announced events and training programs in the AI safety space.
Events and training programs are important for the ecosystem to grow and mature, so we wanted to make it as easy as possible for people to find and sign up to those relevant to them – both online and in-person. It's the reason we built those two websites in the first place, and we think this combined newsletter will help the information on those sites reach even more people. As a side note, we have also created a merged version at aisafety.com/events-and-training.
The newsletter will typically be comprised of four sections:
- Newly announced events
- Newly announced training programs
- Any date changes for those previously announced
- Open calls
We're aiming to bring a wide selection of AI...
Epoch AI is looking for an Operations Associate to help us grow and support our team. This person will manage our recruiting, onboarding, and offboarding processes, and generally support our staff in various other ways, helping our organization thrive. The successful candidate will report to me, Maria de la Lama, and work closely the rest of our 14-people team and our fiscal sponsor's operations team.
This role is full-time, fully remote, and we are able to hire in many countries. Apply by May 15!
Key Responsibilities
- Recruiting and helping our team grow
- The person in this role would manage our hiring rounds, handle outreach for our open roles, communicate with candidates, and help streamline our hiring processes to enable us to grow sustainably and hire the right staff.
- They would also coordinate occasional visa sponsorship processes, and own onboarding & offboarding processes for contractors
Epoch AI is looking for a Researcher on the Economics of AI to investigate the economic basis of AI deployment and automation. The person in this role will work with the rest of our team to build out and analyse our integrated assessment model for AI automation, research the economics of AI training and inference, and build models to help forecast AI’s development and its impact on the economy.
The primary activities of this position include building new and updating existing models of AI automation, development and growth, and advancing original research into the economics of AI development and deployment. Over the course of a year, we anticipate this person will have produced 2-4 leading reports on the economics of AI. The successful candidate will report to Tamay Besiroglu, associate director of Epoch AI, and work closely with the rest of Epoch’s research team.
Some examples of projects...
My favorite EA blogger tells the story of an early abolitionist.
The subtitle, "somewhat in favor of guilt", is better than any summary I'd write.
John Woolman would probably be mad at me for writing a post about his life. He never thought his life mattered.
...Partially
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Epoch AI is looking for an Operations Associate to help us grow and support our team. This person will manage our recruiting, onboarding, and offboarding processes, and support our staff in various other ways to help our organisation thrive. It's a great opportunity for generalists looking to contribute to a mission-driven team working on making sure AI goes well.
Salary: $60,000 to $70,000 pre-tax depending on previous experience. This role is open to full time candidates only.
Location: Remote. We are a fully remote organization, and we are able to hire in...
This announcement was written by Toby Tremlett, but don’t worry, I won’t answer the questions for Lewis.
Lewis Bollard, Program Director of Farm Animal Welfare at Open Philanthropy, will be holding an AMA on Wednesday 8th of May. Put all your questions for him on this thread...
Thanks for doing this AMA, Lewis!
What's your take on when a promising intervention seems cost-effective enough to be tried? Do you think we should be using something akin to GiveWell's approach, piloting stuff that's estimated to be, e.g., ~10x more cost-effective than further cage-free campaigns, or...? I realise your opinion on this might not correspond to OP's overall stance, but I'd love to hear your thoughts about such existent and upcoming benchmarks and thresholds within EAA. Thank you!
Is EA as a bait and switch a compelling argument for it being bad?
I don't really think so
- There are a wide variety of baits and switches, from what I'd call misleading to some pretty normal activities - is it a bait and switch when churches don't discuss their most controversial
I think that there might be something meaningfully different between wearing nice clothes to a first date (or a job interview), as opposed to intentionally not mentioning more controversial/divisive topics to newcomers. I think there is a difference between putting your best foot forward (dressing nice, grooming, explaining introductory EA principles articulately with a 'pitch' you have practices) and intentionally avoiding/occluding information.
For a date, I wouldn't feel deceived/tricked if someone dressed nice. But I would feel deceived if the person intentionally withheld or hid information that they knew I would care about. (it is almost a joke that some people lie about age, weight, height, employment, and similar traits in dating).
I have to admit that I was a bit turned off (what word is appropriate for a very weak form of disgusted?) when I learned that there has long been an intentional effort in EA to funnel people from global development to long-termism within EA.
But CEA/EVF have -- rightfully -- mostly disowned any idea that they (or any other specific entity) decide what is or isn't a valid or correct way to practice effective altruism.
Apart from choosing who can attend their conferences which are the de facto place that many community members meet, writing their intro to EA, managing the effective altruism website and offering criticism of specific members behaviour.
Seems like they are the de facto people who decide what is or isn't valid way to practice effective altruism. If anything more than the LessWrong team (or maybe rationalists are just inherently unmanageable).
I agree on the ironic point though. I think you might assume that the EA forum would moderate more than LW, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
EA is very important to me. I’ve been EtG for 5 years and I spend many hours per week consuming EA content. However, I have zero EA friends (I just have some acquaintances).
(I don't live near a major EA hub. I've attended a few meetups but haven't really connected with ...
In the EA Anywhere Slack (which you can join here) there are semi-regular "random matches" with other members. Not every match will be somebody that you click with or have chemistry with, but if you are looking to meet new people and you don't live in a major city, it might be helpful.
It is quite challenging to build friendships without the in-person element. All of the friends that I have made are people that I have either met in-person, or people that I interacted with somewhat online and later met in-person.
EDIT: oh, I just remembered that you could joi...
I mean Google does basic things like use Yubikeys where other places don't even reliably do that. Unclear what a good checklist would look like, but maybe one could be created.