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Vael Gates Oct 4, 2022, 4:39 AM
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Suggestion for a project from Jonathan Yan:
Given the Future Fund’s recent announcement of the AI Worldview Prize, I think it would be a good idea if someone could create an online group of participants. Such a group can help participants share resources, study together, co-work, challenge each other’s views, etc. After the AI Worldview Prize competition ends, if results are good, a global AI safety community can be built and grown from there.
Alexander Saeri Jul 29, 2022, 5:30 PM
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Great to see this initiative, Vael. I can think of several project ideas that could use this dataset of interviews with researchers.

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1. Analyse transcripts to identify behaviours that researchers and you describe as safe or unsafe, and identify influences on those behaviours (this would need validation with follow up work). Outcome would be an initial answer to the concrete question “who needs to do what differently to improve AI safety in research, and how”
2. Use the actors identified in the interviews to create a system/actor map to help understand flows of influence and information. Outcome: a better understanding of power dynamics of the system and opportunities for influence.
3. With information about the researchers themselves (especially of there are 90+), could begin to create a typology / segmentation to try and understand which types are more open / closed to discussions of safety, and why. Outcome: a strategy for outreach or further work to change decision making and behaviour towards AI safety.
- Vael Gates Jul 29, 2022, 8:28 PM
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  I think my data has insights about 3, and not about 1 and 2! You can take a look at https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LfHWhcfK92qh2nwku/transcripts-of-interviews-with-ai-researchers to see what 11 interviews look like; I think it’d have to be designed differently to get info on 1 or 2.
sawyer🔸Jul 29, 2022, 5:11 PM
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I’m excited to see this happening and I think you’re one of the better people to be launching it. I think there’s probably some helpful overlap with BERI’s world here, so please reach out if you’d like to talk about anything.
- Vael Gates Jul 29, 2022, 8:26 PM
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  Sounds great; thanks Sawyer! “Reaching out to BERI” was definitely listed in my planning docs for this post; if there’s anything that seems obvious to communicate about, happy to take a call, otherwise I’ll reach out if anything seems overlapping.
Vael Gates 6 Dec 2022 22:04 UTC
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Keeping a running list of field-building posts I personally want to keep track of:

Project ideas:
- Akash’s: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/yoP2PN5zdi4EAxdGA/ai-safety-field-building-projects-i-d-like-to-see
- Ryan’s: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/v5z6rDuFPKM5dLpz8/probably-good-projects-for-the-ai-safety-ecosystem

Survey analysis:
- Ash’s: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/SuvMZgc4M8FziSvur/analysis-of-ai-safety-surveys-for-field-building-insights
- Daniel Filan’s: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/rXSBvSKvKdaNkhLeJ/takeaways-from-a-survey-on-ai-alignment-resources
- https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.12852 (Bowman NLP Survey)
- AI Impacts surveys generally, 2022 and 2016, also GovAI has some

Presentation of ideas: (though this should also be updated in https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gdyfJE3noRFSs373q/resources-i-send-to-ai-researchers-about-ai-safety )
- Marius’s: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/8JazqnCNrkJtK2Bx4/why-eas-are-skeptical-about-ai-safety
- Lukas’s: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/8JazqnCNrkJtK2Bx4/why-eas-are-skeptical-about-ai-safety
- Mine: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/q49obZkQujkYmnFWY/vael-gates-risks-from-advanced-ai-june-2022 // https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LfHWhcfK92qh2nwku/transcripts-of-interviews-with-ai-researchers