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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field-building is that otherwise-useful resources – like lists of courses or funders or local groups – generally become outdated over time.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.
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Thanks, I've put that in our feedback database. I do wonder though whether it might have the opposite (demotivating) effect if the acceptance rate is lower than they expect.
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Maybe! I've talked to a fair number of people (often software engineers, and especially people who have more financial responsibilities) who really want to contribute but don't feel safe making the leap without having some idea of their chances. But I don't think I've talked to anyone who was overconfident about getting funding. That's my own idiosyncratic sample, though, hard to know whether it's representative.
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That's useful data, thanks – I've put it as added context to your feedback
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