It's concerning that such a high proportion of the best people I know in AI safety go into grantmaking, running upskilling programs or building AI safety courses / talent pipelines.
I expect if we had better ideas about what to do, the best people would mostly just go and do those things directly instead of finding / funding others to do the actual work of preventing AI catastrophe.
Do you have a way of knowing whether the people you know are a representative sample of the whole field? From what I understand there’s way more safety researchers than field builders.