I had also heard anecdotally from some AI orgs that they might not be able to hire as many people as they would like. This seems surprising given how this seems like a pivotal time for AI safety research and the field is still very young and neglected.
This is interesting but not so surprising to me. Increasing attention to AI work means growing orgs and more people working on it.
AI safety work (outside of big AI companies) is funded almost entirely by donations (as far as I know), with hardly any government money. The large majority of this is probably EA affiliated donations too.
So if the number of AI safety orgs increase and people wanting to working on AI safety increases rapidly (including people outside EA), but the donation growth doesn’t keep up with this then work will stall.
Also this rings true from the OP ”Grants for upskilling, training junior people, and recruitment make a lot less sense right now from grantmakers’ perspective. ”
I had also heard anecdotally from some AI orgs that they might not be able to hire as many people as they would like. This seems surprising given how this seems like a pivotal time for AI safety research and the field is still very young and neglected.
This is interesting but not so surprising to me. Increasing attention to AI work means growing orgs and more people working on it.
AI safety work (outside of big AI companies) is funded almost entirely by donations (as far as I know), with hardly any government money. The large majority of this is probably EA affiliated donations too.
So if the number of AI safety orgs increase and people wanting to working on AI safety increases rapidly (including people outside EA), but the donation growth doesn’t keep up with this then work will stall.
Also this rings true from the OP
”Grants for upskilling, training junior people, and recruitment make a lot less sense right now from grantmakers’ perspective. ”