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
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/
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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...
Now volunteers and capital are largely in place, we are doing an iterative development process with the first unit on corrigibility. When we are satisfied with the quality of this unit (which will probably take 1 or 2 more lecture meetings),unit, we will use the process we developed to create the other units.
Lecture meetings Every few weeks, a lecture meeting is held. A lecture room is set up with testers, lecturer and camera. By then, the instructional designer will have broken down the content into bits that are as small as possible. Best would be bits that can be explained in 3 to 6 minutes. For each bit, the lecturer explains it, and right after, the testers indicate how clear it was. If it wasn't clear enough, we repeat. At the first meeting it became apparant that repeating at least once is always a good idea, for the second try is always higher quality. Levels of understanding for the testers: 5. I would be comfortable explaining this in front of a class 4. I would be comfortable explaining this to a friend 3. I get the gist of it, but I would like to stare at this a bit longer 2. I have a superficial sense of what you probably mean 1. Wtf? The goal is to get everyone to at least level 3 from the lecture alone, and to at least level 4 when assignments are included.
- There are 'overview''scripting' and 'assignments' meetings.
- The 'overview' meeting asks it's attendants'scripting' meetings embody an iterative process to summarizego from papers to lecture scripts. We start with summaries, then we create mind maps, then we decide on a resource thatset of video, and then we create a set of script drafts based on summaries and mind maps
- All of this content is givenused by the lecturer to them. Then it asks every attendant to read every summary (or a subset of them). Then attendants are asked to construct a mind map (tree structure) offinalize scripts, set up the subject. Then attendants are paired up to cross-check their mind map with someone elsestudio and make amendments where they see fit.film.
- The mind maps and summaries that areset of videos produced duringby the 'overview' meetinglecturer are used as an input to the lecture meetings.
- The set of lecture bits produced at the lecture meeting are used as an input to the assignmentassignments meeting.
Shooting lectures
We enlisted Rob Miles to shoot our lectures. About once a week, our content developer sits down with him to go over a particular script draft, which he modifies to his liking.
The setup includes a lightboard, which is a neat educational innovation that allows a lecturer to look at the camera while writing on a board simultaneously.
A detailed outline of next steps can be found in this Workflowy tree
This wiki hasn't been updated for a while. Some of it'sits content is outdated. It will be updated one of these weeks (january 2018). In the meantime you can find updates in the Facebook group.
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.