I’ve been involved (in some capacity) with most of the publications at the Centre for the Governance of AI at FHI coming out over the past 1.5 years. I’d say that for most of our research there is someone outside the EA community involved. Reasonably often, one or more of the authors of the piece wouldn’t identify as part of the EA community. As for input to the work: If it is academically published, we’d get input from reviewers. We also seek additional input for all our work from folks we think will be able to provide useful input. This often includes academics we know in relevant fields. (This of course leads to a bit of a selection effect)
Likewise for publications at CSER. I’d add that for policy work, written policy submissions often provide summaries and key takaways and action-relevant points based on ‘primary’ work done by the centre and its collaborators, where the primary work is peer-reviewed.
We’ve received informal/private feedback from people in policy/government roles at various points that our submissions and presentations have been particularly useful or influential. And we’ll have some confidential written testimony to support this for a few examples for University REF (research excellence framework) assessment purposes; however unfortunately I don’t have permission to share these publicly at this time. However, this comment I wrote last year provides some info that could be used as indirect indications of the work being seen as high-quality (being chosen as a select number to be invited to present orally; follow-up engagement, etc).
I’ve been involved (in some capacity) with most of the publications at the Centre for the Governance of AI at FHI coming out over the past 1.5 years. I’d say that for most of our research there is someone outside the EA community involved. Reasonably often, one or more of the authors of the piece wouldn’t identify as part of the EA community. As for input to the work: If it is academically published, we’d get input from reviewers. We also seek additional input for all our work from folks we think will be able to provide useful input. This often includes academics we know in relevant fields. (This of course leads to a bit of a selection effect)
Likewise for publications at CSER. I’d add that for policy work, written policy submissions often provide summaries and key takaways and action-relevant points based on ‘primary’ work done by the centre and its collaborators, where the primary work is peer-reviewed.
We’ve received informal/private feedback from people in policy/government roles at various points that our submissions and presentations have been particularly useful or influential. And we’ll have some confidential written testimony to support this for a few examples for University REF (research excellence framework) assessment purposes; however unfortunately I don’t have permission to share these publicly at this time. However, this comment I wrote last year provides some info that could be used as indirect indications of the work being seen as high-quality (being chosen as a select number to be invited to present orally; follow-up engagement, etc).
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/whDMv4NjsMcPrLq2b/cser-and-fhi-advice-to-un-high-level-panel-on-digital?commentId=y7DjYFE3gjZZ9caij