Hey Ben, thanks for this great post. Really interesting to read about your experience and decision not to continue in this space.
I’m wondering if you have any sense of how quickly returns to new projects in this space might diminish? Founding an AI policy research and advocacy org seems like a slam dunk, but I’m wondering how many more ideas nearly that promising are out there.
I’m wondering if you have any sense of how quickly returns to new projects in this space might diminish? Founding an AI policy research and advocacy org seems like a slam dunk, but I’m wondering how many more ideas nearly that promising are out there.
I guess my rough impression is that there’s lots of possible great new projects if there’s a combination of a well-suited founding team and support for that team. But “well-suited founding team” might be quite a high bar.
I’ve earlier argued against the sentiment that “we need as many technical approaches (‘stabs’) to solve the AI alignment problem”, and therefore, probably, new organisations to pursue these technical agendas, too.
Hey Ben, thanks for this great post. Really interesting to read about your experience and decision not to continue in this space.
I’m wondering if you have any sense of how quickly returns to new projects in this space might diminish? Founding an AI policy research and advocacy org seems like a slam dunk, but I’m wondering how many more ideas nearly that promising are out there.
Hi Stephen, thanks for the kind words!
I guess my rough impression is that there’s lots of possible great new projects if there’s a combination of a well-suited founding team and support for that team. But “well-suited founding team” might be quite a high bar.
I’ve earlier argued against the sentiment that “we need as many technical approaches (‘stabs’) to solve the AI alignment problem”, and therefore, probably, new organisations to pursue these technical agendas, too.