I sympathize with this. My AI safety career was started when I turned down a tech company return offer for the chance of maybe later getting an AI safety research internship. The tech company paid more than triple (seeing as AI safety internship was in academia). I ended up getting the AI safety internship, but I almost didn’t!
Not everyone wants to take that risk. And not everyone can afford to, either.
I sympathize with this. My AI safety career was started when I turned down a tech company return offer for the chance of maybe later getting an AI safety research internship. The tech company paid more than triple (seeing as AI safety internship was in academia). I ended up getting the AI safety internship, but I almost didn’t!
Not everyone wants to take that risk. And not everyone can afford to, either.