AI Governance researcher, based in San Francisco.
Kate Tran
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As one of the donors in supporting certain longtermism causes, I’m thankful for your transparency and seeing these up-to-date figures. I hope to see more in-depth reasoning behind future longtermism grants and the outcome of its impact next year.
This is a good pilot—remind me of open source code publishing that encourage exchanging ideas while helping someone to get better at certain skill, highly support! Its especially for people like me who is new to posting articles online without having someone reviewed and critiqued before publishing. I also wonder what are some main topic of interest the community is interested to read about in the upcoming year, like is there a poll and a word cloud that generate the common theme?
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Thank you, Peter, there seems to be promising hope for longtermism from RP.
It’s unfortunate that due to this collapse, longtermism projects have been affected majorly and I worry that the damage from FTX may cause additional neglectedness or potential skepticism in future funding from interested parties. My speculation is that a large group of orgs will likely to pause funding on longtermism and focus more on how to strategically build credibility and trust in order to raise more support from external funders, at least for the upcoming 6 months.
This is the very beginning of forward leading in crisis, and individually, I appreciate the transparent communication in clarification of RP’s current situation and strategies for the short term plan. Especially glad to be reassured that the current team is not affected by layoffs/cutdown in salaries. Though, I’m curios to know if this mean there will be potential on-going hiring freeze for certain positions? If so, which roles are to be expected on pause at RP’s, or generally, in other longtermism-focused orgs in the Bay Area?
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this. It’s such an uncertain time and I want to express my sympathy to you and the FTX’s team.
With all the above discussion, make me wonder the following things:
- how other EA orgs that were mainly funded by FTX will operate and what are ways to help those that affected severely in this situation?
- how the hiring opportunities may be affected? is there expected a hiring freeze from most EA-orgs?
- what are the next best strategies when it comes to funding diversity and the future of EA overall
In my view, it’s essential that orgs that were involved with FTX funding should communicate clear about their next strategies and be honest about their concerns regardless of the FTX outcome in the upcoming weeks/months. I worry less about the reputation/prestige and care much more about promising projects that were funded that may be put in very struggling financial positions leading to lot’s of harm to both human and non-humans well being.
Thanks for writing this post, I find it helpful to learn how operations is applicable in several scenarios which made me realized that my previous experience working as a sales and reservations coordinator/front desk customer representative in hotel/travel business were very operations-focused from both customer and production stand point.
I have thoroughly analyzed and provided an overview of both the AI Bill of Rights and the EU AI Act. In light of this, I’m genuinely intrigued to hear Ezra’s insightful perspective on the possible challenges that these frameworks might encounter and the specific hurdles they would need to overcome in order to be successfully implemented. His thoughts on this matter would be greatly appreciated, as I believe they would contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the potential obstacles facing AI governance and policy.