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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field-building is that otherwise-useful resources – like lists of courses or funders or local groups – generally become outdated over time.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.
4Recommendation: make the "Last updated" timestamp on these pages way more prominent, e.g. by moving them to the top below the page title. (Like what most news websites nowadays do for SEO, or like where timestamps are located on LW posts.) Otherwise absolutely no-one will know that you do this, or that these resources are not outdated but are actually up-to-date.
The current timestamp location is so unusual that I only noticed it by accident, and was in fact about to write a comment suggesting you add a timestamp at all.
1That's great feedback, thanks! I've gone ahead and put it under the page title for each resource.
1Today there are over 100 in-person AI safety communities around the globe, and now they’re hopefully a little easier to find: we’ve added an interactive map listing them all to the AISafety.com Communities page.
This should make it a little easier for newcomers to find their nearest group and for established members to connect when traveling, as well as providing a general overview of the distribution of communities around the world.
Below the map we still have the searchable list of in-person and online communities.
Like all resources on AISafety.com, we’ll keep this updated. If you notice a group is missing or have any feedback, please let us know.
Special thanks to @agucova for providing a number of entries for the database.
Thanks - FYI, I see: Sorry, the map could not be loaded. Please check the setup or contact support.
Thanks for the heads up, I'll send you a DM to troubleshoot – I suspect it may just be a browser extension messing with it.
Yeah, probably an issue with Brave Browser or similar. I don't have time to look into it more, but I am sure you can figure it out regardless. Might be worth adding a related message to the page (not sure)
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I've put it on our list of possible future pages, and added some of the things from that doc to our Funders page. Thanks Chris!