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Where do AI Safety Fellows go? Analyzing a dataset of 600+ alumni

We invest heavily in fellowships, but do we know exactly where people go and the impact the fellowships have? To begin answering this question I manually analyzed over 600 alumni profiles from 9 major late-stage fellowships (fellowships that I believe could lead directly into a job following). These profiles represent...

Jan 2•12

Christopher_Clay

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Where do AI Safety Fellows go? Analyzing a dataset of 600+ alumni

Jan 2•12

Christopher_Clay

Where do AI Safety Fellows go? Analyzing a dataset of 600+ alumni

Christopher_Clay

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We invest heavily in fellowships, but do we know exactly where people go and the impact the fellowships have? To begin answering this question I manually analyzed over 600 alumni profiles from 9 major late-stage fellowships (fellowships that I believe could lead directly into a job following). These profiles represent current participants and alumni from MATS, GovAI, ERA, Pivotal, Talos Network, Tarbell, Apart Labs, IAPS, and PIBBS.

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I’ve compiled a dataset of over 600 alumni profiles of 9 major 'late stage' AI Safety and Governance Fellowships.
I found over 10% of fellows did another fellowship after their fellowship. This doesn’t feel enormously efficient.
Almost ⅓ of ERA and Talos Network fellows (29.8% and 32.3% respectively) did

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