Yeah, I agree that recruitment and compensation are major obstacles. For example, Mercy for Animals is currently hiring a global director of data and analytics, and are willing to pay up to $87,000 in salary. This role involves more responsibility than I currently have for half of my current total comp. In writing this post, however, I was hoping that there’d be potential roles for volunteers.
On the other hand, my impression is that AI safety orgs pay software and ML engineers competitively, because these are their core competencies.
Yeah, I agree that recruitment and compensation are major obstacles. For example, Mercy for Animals is currently hiring a global director of data and analytics, and are willing to pay up to $87,000 in salary. This role involves more responsibility than I currently have for half of my current total comp. In writing this post, however, I was hoping that there’d be potential roles for volunteers.
On the other hand, my impression is that AI safety orgs pay software and ML engineers competitively, because these are their core competencies.
This is really well said, thanks for laying out your perspective in searching for volunteers.