I’m an electrical engineering undergraduate. I’d be especially excited to work on making it easier for AI chips to track what they are being used for, and making it harder for bad actors to remove this feature. The more we can achieve this, the more governments will be able to reduce the risk of misaligned AI by regulating compute.
Once I’ve built up about 24 months worth of living expenses in savings, I plan to take a Giving What We Can Further Pledge to live on maybe $25,000 per year (to be adjusted for inflation and reevaluated if I have a child) so I can donate most of my income to GiveWell recommended charities. I currently donate to the GiveWell All Grants Fund and offset my carbon footprint by donating to the Founder’s Pledge Climate Change Fund.
I want to make a small comment on your phrase “it could have a chilling effect on those who have their own cases of sexual assault to report.” Owen has not committed sexual assault, but sexual harassment. If this imperfect wording was an isolated incident, I wouldn’t have said anything, but in every sexual misconduct comment thread I’ve followed on the forum, people have said sexual assault when they mean sexual harassment, and/or rape when they mean sexual assault. I was a victim of sexual abuse both growing up and as an adult, so I’m aware that there are big differences between the three, and feel it would be helpful to be mindful of our wording.