What do the recent developments mean for AI safety career paths? I’m in the process of shifting my career plans toward ‘trying to robustly set myself up for meaningfully contributing to making transformative AI go well’ (whatever that means), but everything is developing so rapidly now and I’m not sure in what direction to update my plans, let alone develop a solid inside view on what the AI(S) ecosystem will look like and what kind of skillset and experience will be most needed several years down the line.
I’m mainly looking into governance and field building (which I’m already involved in) over technical alignment research, though I want to ask this question in a more general sense since I’m guessing it would be helpful for others as well.
What do the recent developments mean for AI safety career paths? I’m in the process of shifting my career plans toward ‘trying to robustly set myself up for meaningfully contributing to making transformative AI go well’ (whatever that means), but everything is developing so rapidly now and I’m not sure in what direction to update my plans, let alone develop a solid inside view on what the AI(S) ecosystem will look like and what kind of skillset and experience will be most needed several years down the line.
I’m mainly looking into governance and field building (which I’m already involved in) over technical alignment research, though I want to ask this question in a more general sense since I’m guessing it would be helpful for others as well.