(Post 5/N with some rough notes on AI governance field-building strategy. Posting here for ease of future reference, and in case anyone else thinking about similar stuff finds this helpful.)
Laundry list of talent pipeline interventions
More AI governance groups/programs at universities
Run workshops on the most marginally valuable aptitudes
E.g. a macrostrategy workshop could look like: people tell stories about, concretely, things could go badly, and backchaining to what we should do
Run bootcamps on particularly important topics, e.g. compute
Help bring more people up to speed in most important areas
Create better resources for teaching low-hanging fruit skills
E.g. resources for learning how to do reasoning transparency—currently this is pretty hard to learn, but seems like one of the more teachable skills
E.g. compile zero-shot tips that occasionally people just miss, like “don’t read books from cover to cover”
The best way of predicting happiness and success on the job is to actually do the job → hackathon type stuff. “This is the problem. Here’s the internet. Here’s some resources. Go nuts.”
Note to self: more detailed but less structured version of these notes here.
(Post 5/N with some rough notes on AI governance field-building strategy. Posting here for ease of future reference, and in case anyone else thinking about similar stuff finds this helpful.)
Laundry list of talent pipeline interventions
More AI governance groups/programs at universities
Run workshops on the most marginally valuable aptitudes
E.g. a macrostrategy workshop could look like: people tell stories about, concretely, things could go badly, and backchaining to what we should do
Run bootcamps on particularly important topics, e.g. compute
Help bring more people up to speed in most important areas
Create better resources for teaching low-hanging fruit skills
E.g. resources for learning how to do reasoning transparency—currently this is pretty hard to learn, but seems like one of the more teachable skills
E.g. compile zero-shot tips that occasionally people just miss, like “don’t read books from cover to cover”
Tag those resources onto existing programs
AI-governance-careers.com
“Ambitious talent search”
The best way of predicting happiness and success on the job is to actually do the job → hackathon type stuff. “This is the problem. Here’s the internet. Here’s some resources. Go nuts.”
Note to self: more detailed but less structured version of these notes here.