I think it is worth noting that Ambitious Impact (formerly known as Charity Entrepreneurship) has jumped into the extremely competitive space of for-profit startups BEFORE trying to help build the AI Safety space.
Some quick thoughts/background:
1. The AI Safety space has LOADS of very smart people that can’t get jobs because there aren’t enough organisations to hire them. It might be the biggest bottleneck in the cause area. Meanwhile, capabilities literally has dozens of billions being thrown into it
2. For-profit entrepreneurship isn’t in Ambitious Impact’s (AI, lol) top cause area
3. I brought this up in the past, and Joey responded in this post. I think his post was overall a useful start, specific in some ways but vague in others. Vague in a ‘hey maybe you should look into this but I won’t tell you why’ kinda way
Here is what I think is going on: there are people (maybe including Joey) ‘in-the-know’ about some things that make creating longtermist/AI safety startups really hard, but some of those reasons aren’t being discussed publicly out of fear of shaming people for their failures and/or reluctance to put their money where their mouth is on x-risk.
I think we need a public discussion about whats going on here. Our lives may literally depend on it, even if Ambitious Impact doesn’t think so.
Ambitious Impact launches a for-profit accelerator instead of building the AI Safety space. Let’s talk about this.
I think it is worth noting that Ambitious Impact (formerly known as Charity Entrepreneurship) has jumped into the extremely competitive space of for-profit startups BEFORE trying to help build the AI Safety space.
Some quick thoughts/background:
1. The AI Safety space has LOADS of very smart people that can’t get jobs because there aren’t enough organisations to hire them. It might be the biggest bottleneck in the cause area. Meanwhile, capabilities literally has dozens of billions being thrown into it
2. For-profit entrepreneurship isn’t in Ambitious Impact’s (AI, lol) top cause area
3. I brought this up in the past, and Joey responded in this post. I think his post was overall a useful start, specific in some ways but vague in others. Vague in a ‘hey maybe you should look into this but I won’t tell you why’ kinda way
Here is what I think is going on: there are people (maybe including Joey) ‘in-the-know’ about some things that make creating longtermist/AI safety startups really hard, but some of those reasons aren’t being discussed publicly out of fear of shaming people for their failures and/or reluctance to put their money where their mouth is on x-risk.
I think we need a public discussion about whats going on here. Our lives may literally depend on it, even if Ambitious Impact doesn’t think so.