Program Overview The Machine Learning Safety Scholars program is a paid, 9-week summer program designed to help undergraduate students gain skills in machine learning with the aim of using those skills for empirical AI safety research in the future. Apply for the program here by May 31st. The course will...
TL;DR—We’re distributing $20k in total as prizes for submissions that make effective arguments for the importance of AI safety. The goal is to generate short-form content for outreach to policymakers, management at tech companies, and ML researchers. This competition will be followed by another competition in around a month that...
Epistemic status: mild confidence that this provides interesting discussion and debate. Credits to (in no particular order) Mark Xu, Sydney Von Arx, Jack Ryan, Sidney Hough, Kuhan Jeyapragasan, and Pranay Mittal for resources and feedback. Credits to Ajeya (obviously), Daniel Kokotajlo, Gwern, Robin Hanson, and many others for perspectives on...