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TL;DR: The first round of the Generator Residency went very well. Our residents created and ran several large-scale fieldbuilding, talent infrastructure, and operational projects that have already had important impacts on the ecosystem. Six weeks after the program ended, 12 of our 27 residents have been hired to full-time roles...

TL;DR: The first round of the Generator Residency went very well. Our residents created and ran several large-scale fieldbuilding, talent infrastructure, and operational projects that have already had important impacts on the ecosystem. Six weeks after the program ended, 12 of our 27 residents have been hired to full-time roles...

TL;DR. AI safety needs more people who understand the field and its gaps deeply enough to own problems end-to-end, found new projects and organizations, and shape the threat models that the rest of the field runs on. Astra is trying to cultivate more of these people. Astra's new Strategy and...

Applications have opened for the Summer 2023 Cohort of the SERI ML Alignment Theory Scholars Program! Our mentors include Alex Turner, Dan Hendrycks, Daniel Kokotajlo, Ethan Perez, Evan Hubinger, Janus, Jeffrey Ladish, Jesse Clifton, John Wentworth, Lee Sharkey, Neel Nanda, Nicholas Kees Dupuis, Owain Evans, Victoria Krakovna, and Vivek Hebbar....

TLDR: I'm launching Good Futures Initiative, a winter project internship to sponsor students to take on projects to upskill, test their fit for career aptitudes, or do impactful work over winter break. You can read more on our website and apply here by December 11th if interested! Good Futures Initiative...

When I was first introduced to AI Safety, coming from a background studying psychology, I kept getting frustrated about the way people defined the and used the word "intelligence". They weren't able to address my questions about cultural intelligence, social evolution, and general intelligence in a way I found rigorous...

At EA UC Berkeley, we’re launching an ongoing series of contests called the Artificial Intelligence Misalignment Solutions (AIMS) series. This third contest, Edit Your Source Code, is an AI Safety sci-fi creative writing contest now open to any student (high school, undergrad, grad): here are our interest and submission forms!...