I encourage you to talk to them since it’s something they specialize in
I hope someone doing AI safety will reply here.
My prior from people trying to enter domain that I know something about—is that they could save a ton of time if they’d get insider advice. But I don’t have the answers for AI Safety specifically
This is great advice :) Already mentioned below; however, for people in similar positions, please do consider booking a coaching call with AI Safety Support: https://www.aisafetysupport.org/. We have experience helping people navigate the AI Safety field and can also connect you to others.
(Please tell me who you would or wouldn’t like me to send your way, I ongoingly talk to lots of software developers, and sometimes they want to do AI safety)
Yeah, absolutely! Happy to go through posts offering career advice, how one might implement the advice, if there are any other perspectives to consider, etc.
I would really encourage having a low-bar for sending people our way, very happy to talk to anyone! But generally, we offer coaching to those trying to get into the AI Safety field (ex. undergrads looking for research positions, software engineers or research scientists looking for work in the field, independent researchers or community-builders interested in applying for funding). Also happy to talk people through AI Safety career-related decisions (ex. whether or not to go to graduate school, choosing between positions, etc.)
Hi Yonatan, I actually got some 1:1 career advice from 80k recently, they were great! I’m also friends with someone in AI who’s local to Montréal and who’s trying to help me out. He works at MILA which has ties to a few universities in the city (that’s kind of what inspired the speculative master’s application). Thanks in advance for the referrals!
Hey!
80k wrote about similar things: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/gbPthwLw3NovHAJdp/new-80-000-hours-career-review-software-engineering#Working_in_AI_safety
I encourage you to talk to them since it’s something they specialize in
I hope someone doing AI safety will reply here.
My prior from people trying to enter domain that I know something about—is that they could save a ton of time if they’d get insider advice. But I don’t have the answers for AI Safety specifically
I’ll refer some friends to this post
+1 for asking publicly!
This is great advice :) Already mentioned below; however, for people in similar positions, please do consider booking a coaching call with AI Safety Support: https://www.aisafetysupport.org/. We have experience helping people navigate the AI Safety field and can also connect you to others.
Ah wow!
Would you recommend contacting you over reading this?
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/pbiGHk6AjRxdBPoD8/ai-safety-starter-pack
(Please tell me who you would or wouldn’t like me to send your way, I ongoingly talk to lots of software developers, and sometimes they want to do AI safety)
Yeah, absolutely! Happy to go through posts offering career advice, how one might implement the advice, if there are any other perspectives to consider, etc.
I would really encourage having a low-bar for sending people our way, very happy to talk to anyone! But generally, we offer coaching to those trying to get into the AI Safety field (ex. undergrads looking for research positions, software engineers or research scientists looking for work in the field, independent researchers or community-builders interested in applying for funding). Also happy to talk people through AI Safety career-related decisions (ex. whether or not to go to graduate school, choosing between positions, etc.)
I’m going to add some of this to my ‘done’ column, thanks for pointing it out.
Hi Yonatan, I actually got some 1:1 career advice from 80k recently, they were great! I’m also friends with someone in AI who’s local to Montréal and who’s trying to help me out. He works at MILA which has ties to a few universities in the city (that’s kind of what inspired the speculative master’s application). Thanks in advance for the referrals!