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Thanks Tristan :)
AFAIK the closest to this for EA generally is effectivealtruism.org, which links to some resources.
I can imagine something more comprehensive (like an AISafety.com for EA) perhaps being useful. One thing that might be interesting is a landscape map of the main orgs and projects in EA – we’d be happy to share the code of the AI safety map if you chose to explore that.
I can confirm that we are indeed continuing to maintain the AI safety part of the database, which now lives at AISafety.com/projects – any feedback on that page is very welcome! And yes, to my knowledge the rest of the EA database is unmaintained.
Seems pretty reasonable – thanks!
This is a very useful summary, thanks. I’ve added those that were missing to AISafety.com/events-and-training.
I’m curious about why the Nigeria and South Africa events are called Summits instead of EAGx – would you mind expanding on the reasoning there? What will be the difference between a Summit and an EAGx?
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Excellent! I’ve updated it on aisafety.training 👌🏼
Feedback would be great, thanks!
I completely agree that having a broad overview of what’s going on in the ecosystem can be useful in many ways, and that a deck like this should be able to help with that – hopefully!
I’d be more than happy to check out your deck – feel free to send me a DM. I’ve never used cloze deletions on Anki so I’d be especially intrigued to see how that works.
The idea came about because I was looking for ways I could use Anki beyond language learning and figured this could be useful, then decided that if it seems useful for me then presumably for others too.
When I told a few people I was working on this, I generally didn’t get particularly excited feedback. It seemed like this may at least to some degree be because people are sceptical as to the quality of shared decks, which is partly why I put a lot of time into making this one as well-designed as possible.
That’s also the reason I would personally be keen to try out someone else’s deck on core concepts from an AISF course or similar, but with the caveat that if it didn’t meet a pretty high quality standard then I’d likely not use it and make one myself instead. FWIW, I used the Ultimate Geography shared deck as inspiration for a very well-made deck.
Hope that’s useful!
One challenge in AI safety field-building is that otherwise-useful resources – like lists of courses or funders or local groups – generally become outdated over time. We’ve tried to solve this by collecting a bunch of resources together at AISafety.com and dedicating considerable bandwidth to keeping them updated.
Until recently, this maintenance has been largely ad hoc, making additions and changes as we learned of them. To ensure nothing slips through the cracks, we’ve now added a schedule for doing thorough sweeps through the entire database for each resource. Below is our current plan:
Courses
Every 3 months: general sweep
Communities
Every 3 months: general sweep
(maybe) Every 6 months: request update from organisers
Projects
Every 3 months: general sweep
Every 6 months: request update from owners of active projects
Jobs
[This is a filtered subset of 80k’s database and updates automatically]
Events & training
Twice weekly: check for new events and programs
Every 2 weeks: add any dates previously unannounced and check for changes to application deadlines
Funders
Every 2 weeks: check for changes to “applications open/closed” status
Every 3 months: general sweep
Landscape map
Every 1 month: check no links are broken
Every 3 months: general sweep
Donation guide
Every 3 months: check no links are broken
Every 6 months: review entire guide
Speak to an Advisor
Every 3 months: general sweep
We’re also continuing to make immediate updates whenever we become aware of them. In other words, this is just the minimum you can expect for regular maintenance.
If you spot a correction or want to add something new, please get in touch via the form on the relevant resource page. Our goal is to keep AISafety.com’s resources as accurate and up to date as possible.