Road To AI Safety Excellence

AI safety is a small field. It has only about 50100 researchers. The field is mostly talent-constrained. Given the dangers of an uncontrolled intelligence explosion, increasing the amount of AIS researchers is crucial for the long-term survival of humanity.

Road to AI Safety Excellence (RAISE), previously named AASAA, was an initiative from u/toonalfrink/toonalfrink to improve the pipeline for AI safety researchers, especially by creating an online course. See the Post-Mortem.

This page is deprecated, and it will no longer be updated by the RAISE founder (unless an independent party decides to). See the updated page at http://aisafety.camp/about/

Road to AI Safety Excellence (RAISE), previously named AASAA, iswas an initiative from u/toonalfrink/ to improve the pipeline for AI safety researchers, especially by creating an online course. See the Post-Mortem.

Currently done by: Arran Stirton

Note

This page is deprecated, and it will no longer be updated (unless an independent party decides to). See the updated page at http://aisafety.camp/about/

Note

This wiki hasn't been updated for a while. Some of its content is outdated. It will be updated one of these weeks (january 2018). In the meantime you can find updates in the Facebook group.

• plan tree
• list of resources
• curriculum & course structure tree
• facebook group
• Announcement post on LessWrong

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Required technical understanding: none. none

(edited as of 2018-01-31, now roles have mostly crystallized)

Currently done by: Toon Alfrink, Veerle de Goederen, Remmelt Ellen, Johannes Heidecke, Mati Roy Required technical understanding: superficial. Minimum commitment: 21 full daysday per week

Currently done by: lots of people Minimum commitment: none

Instructional designContent developer ThereAs our content developer, you are many ways to get an idea across. There are documentaries, lectures, stories, texts, examples, proofs, assignments, etc. Different ideas need different media. It is hard to explain a math formula through a documentary,responsible for example. On the other hand, ifquality of the material. You coordinate the study group, review the quality of it's production, and spend extra time on your own learning the content (if you want to explain some philosophical idea like value misalignment, a made-up story like the paperclip maximizer would be a good fit. You decide the layout of a course unit. Ideally, there will be small juicy bits of information/questions/thingies in quick succession. A great example of a good course design is Google's deep learning course. Notice how most bits are only a few minutes long, and the student is prompted to think all the time. The course design donehaven't already) so faryou can be found hereour expert. You also help the lecturer with finalizing his scripts, and you assist him in understanding everything.

Currently done by: No one. This is a paid position. If interested, email us at raise@aisafety.campRequired technical understanding: moderate.near-complete. Minimum commitment: 12 full daydays per week

Giving lectures You thoroughly study the material, making sure you know it well enough to explain it clearly. Together with the instructional designer,content developer, you sit down and go over the bits that need explanation. These bits may range from 10 seconds3 to an hour of speaking,6 minutes, and they are interleaved with questions and small assignments to keep the student engaged. Then you teach the bits to a small class of testers, on camera. Testers will give immediate feedback: a few repeats may be necessary to get it right.

Currently done by: Robert Miles Required technical understanding: thorough. Minimum commitment: 1 full day per week

Writing materialStudy group attendant You write both assignmentshelp out in the weekly study group, creating summaries, mind maps, script drafts and text-based explanations, according to the request of the instructional designer. To what extent this is needed depends on the nature of the concept that is being covered.assignments. We also give presentations

Currently done by: Johannes Heidecke, Tom Rutten, Toon Alfrink, Tarn Somervell Fletcher, Nandi Schoots, Roland Pihlakas, Robert Miles, Rupert McCallum, Philine Widmer, Louie Terrill, Tim Bakker, Veerle de Goederen, Ofer Givoli Required technical understanding: thorough.none. Minimum commitment: 24 hours to 1 full day per week

Taking care of hostingSoftware developer WeWith about 60% certainty, we...