Also, the Bay Area is probably the top metro area in the world for AI capabilities R&D (because of Google, OpenAI, Meta, various ex-Brain startups, Stanford, Berkeley). So if starting from scratch, there’d be a good reason to put AI Safety orgs there.
Also, the Bay Area is probably the top metro area in the world for AI capabilities R&D (because of Google, OpenAI, Meta, various ex-Brain startups, Stanford, Berkeley). So if starting from scratch, there’d be a good reason to put AI Safety orgs there.
Good point! I expect it would have ended up as the main AI hub even if MIRI hadn’t moved there.