If you are in this group whose talents and expertise are outside of these narrow areas, and want to contribute to AI strategy, I recommend you build up your capacity and try to put yourself in an influential position. This will set you up well to guide high-value policy interventions as clearer policy directions emerge. [...]
Depending on how slow these āentangledā research questions are to unjam, and on the timelines of AI development, there might be a very narrow window of time in which it will be necessary to have a massive, sophisticated mobilization of altruistic talent. This makes being prepared to mobilize effectively and take impactful action on short notice extremely valuable in expectation. (emphasis in original)
Hereās another example of a prior statement of something like the idea Iām proposing should be investigated. This is from Carrick Flynn talking about AI policy and strategy careers:
And Richard Ngo discusses similar ideas, again in relation to AI policy.