Thank you for digging into this and sharing your findings! Some of these seem like important insights if they’re correct.
On observation 3:
Motivation exists, experience is scarce and takes years. There might be no shortage of junior, motivated, community-adjacent generalists seeking entry. The shortage is at the other end: senior professionals with years of accumulated judgment in operations, management, institutional engagement, communications, or policy who bring skills that cannot be acquired quickly. Several participants suggested that, for most generalist roles, a competent senior professional can get to a working level of AIS context in weeks, whereas it takes years, sometimes decades, to develop the professional judgment, external relationships, and organisational experience that senior roles require.
Seniority is a proxy for what is actually needed: diversity and outside-world fluency...
Several participants named this as an increasingly urgent gap.
I’m somewhat surprised by this. It’d be good news for me if trye, because I run a career bootcamp that happens to have relatively large numbers of experienced, accomplished professionals seeking to transition into high-impact cause areas, often interested in AI safety, often generalists.
Would you be able to put me in touch with some of the people who expressed this need so we can understand the gap better and see if I can connect them to relevant talented people?
Thank you for digging into this and sharing your findings! Some of these seem like important insights if they’re correct.
On observation 3:
I’m somewhat surprised by this. It’d be good news for me if trye, because I run a career bootcamp that happens to have relatively large numbers of experienced, accomplished professionals seeking to transition into high-impact cause areas, often interested in AI safety, often generalists.
Would you be able to put me in touch with some of the people who expressed this need so we can understand the gap better and see if I can connect them to relevant talented people?
You can email me at Jamie.harris@centreforeffectivealtruism.org if easier!
Thank you, Jamie. I appreciate you flagging this, and I am glad the observation resonated. I have followed up by email to discuss further.