AI safety needs people everywhere but quickly stated, current talent bottlenecks to me look like:

-- Founders

-- Grantmakers

-- (technical) Research leads 

-- Policy entrepreneurs and implementors (which includes a lot of technical work)

-- bets in international coordination and/or cooperation

-- All manner of supporting talent -- program leads, ops proper, public outreach, content creators, comms

Most sought-after qualities for talent are:

-- context, mission alignment, domain understanding, sophisticated views on AI strategy and threat modelling etc.

-- "good ju... (read more)

The "Desperate" AI Safety Talent Bottleneck is deeply misleading. Please.stop.

I worked at Google.

Google does not tell applicants that there is a talent bottleneck and they are desperately hiring. They say "we're cool, join us!" 

I didn't get into Harvard. 

Harvard does not tell applicants that they are desperately seeking students. I am not misled. 

I've gotten rejected from countless AI Safety organizations.

AI Safety tells applicants - we are in desperate need of talent (operators/generalists)! Please join us! 

I've coached 70+ aspiring career pivoters on nav... (read more)

I'm not a student, but I'm surprised UC Law SF(formerly UC Hastings) doesn't have an EA club or AI safety club. Seems like an interesting spot for people interested in AI governance work that could be well-served by UC Berkeley or Stanford pitching people to join their club meetings.  

According to people I know who have personally seen the flyers, there are flyers offering to pay people to protest a recent Sam Altman appearance (unclear why they're mad at Sam Altman, there are many reasons why they might be mad at him). However, the protest was cancelled because of ???. https://www.wunc.org/education/2026-09-02/protest-chapel-hill-unc-g20-innovation-technology-sam-altman-elon-musk-artificial-intelligence gives a bit of coverage of the story.

If this comes from the EA side of things, people should know that the optics of "paid protests" a... (read more)

I believe there is immense untapped potential in narrative change through the applications of "short-form video marketing tactics" to the Animal Welfare movement. 

What do I mean by "short form video marketing tactics". 

Specifically I mean clipping campaigns the likes of which have helped launched the career of some of the 2020's most popular musicians including Sombr, Alex Warren, Geese, and Oklou. 

Clipping campaigns essentially pay people on a per view basis for tiktok, instagram reel, and youtube shorts. Anyone can create a clipping campaign and usually ... (read more)

TLDR: I've updated towards pausing further AI development indefinitely.

When Scott Alexander proposed regulating AI like clinical drugs, many (including myself) balked at this given the sclerosis of FDA or related bodies. Yet HF updates me towards treating frontier AIs as nuclear. There onerous regulation is likely good.

In general, most bureaucratised regulatory regimes are bad. In some cases, like nuclear technology or ensuring planes are safe to fly on, they're welfare improving. It's clear that AI belongs in the latter category.

Also trace inversion is a ... (read more)

I think that there can be strategies that make AI the more safer the more capable it becomes. There was a time when I became safer when I became more capable as I thought, reflected and kept certain actions off limits. There can be core and basic stratgies to be used for making AI safer the more capable it becomes and now we are going in the opposite direction with about 50% probabality. 

There must be some humans that atleast for a point of time became safer the more capable they became and their strategies whichever are compatiable for AI can be used. Ins... (read more)

How impactful would it be to copies of @Garrison's new book Obsolete to elected officials who belong to its political target audience (Dems, particularly left ones) and might not have been responsive to traditional x-risk-centric comms (e.g. IABIED)?

There's an old Facebook group, New EA hub search and planning, that might be worth reviving in light of the incresed amount of funding coming into the space.

Even with more availability of funding, many talented folks won't get funded or will only recieve small amounts. Establishing new hubs that provide an easier entry-way to being surrounded by community seems like potentially quite high value. After all, it takes a village to raise an EA and being surrounded by others is an accelerator to impact.

[central europe] We are organising the largest AI-safety march (at least in central europe) to date at Prague, starting at 15:00 on 31st August. We have got parlimentary support as well as very supportive police, allowing us to take the preffered route. We want as many people to come - fell free to spread information about the event outside EA as much as possible, especially if you have friends living near Prague who may come. If you want closer info/visual materials or help us with organisation, you can get in contact with czech PauseAI on whatsapp.

Luma e... (read more)