Headline finding: I audited 17 AI Safety Talent programmes. Zero of 17 have published any comparison group, rejected-applicant follow-up, matched control or randomisation. Not one. Every programme that mentions a counterfactual does it by asking participants to self-report.
Background
At least $70 million...
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Today marks exactly one year since If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All, by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soare...
A year ago I posted that YCombinator (YC) companies didn’t seem to be growing faster since the release of ChatGPT in 2022. I reran that experiment and found that 2023+ YC companies are arguably growing a bit faster than pre-2023 companies (including AfterQuery, ...
As a new person here, i am curious to learn more. I think that Longtermism strongly implies growth-oriented policies, and that might even be the existential risk-minimizing strategy. I did an entire substack post on my thoughts, and would be interested to hear where you might think i am wrong (I probably am, you may have thought a lot more on it than I have, or just be smarter). Also what is the general longtermist take on AI-regulation, and the larger statement made here - We Must Act Now. It seems to me that carte blanche calls to action are not really helpful, but would be open to changing my mind. :-)
https://open.substack.com/pub/ulrikahm/p/longtermism-and-the-moral-necessity?r=4cnrou&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true