A quick poll of 105 people at EAG on Friday evening

I polled of 105 people at EAG on Friday evening, asking them the question: “Which field are you in, or more importantly want to be in?”

I estimate I polled around a third of the people in the King George 3 room in The Brewery between 18:30 and 19:30 on the evening of Friday 15th April.

I categorized people’s answers into some arbitrary categories. Here are the raw results:

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Or, counted up and put into a more readable format:

32 — AI Alignment /​ AI governance

15 — Community building

11 — Don’t know /​ nothing yet

10 — Animal welfare /​ advocacy

10 — General longtermism /​ bio risk /​ s-risk

7 — Law or policy

5 — Global health /​ longevity /​ mental health

5 — Founding charities /​ movements /​ companies

4 — Climate change

4 — Earning to give

1 — Improving institutional decision-making

1 — Operations (“whatever is needed”)

So about 30% of people in the room were in AI.