AI Safety Research Camp - Project Proposal
AI Safety Research Camp - Project Proposal → Give your feedback on our plans below or in the google doc → Apply to take part in the Gran Canaria camp on 12-22 April (deadline: 12 February) → Join the Facebook group Summary Aim: Efficiently launch aspiring AI safety and strategy researchers into concrete productivity by creating an ‘on-ramp’ for future researchers. Specifically: 1. Get people started on and immersed into concrete research work intended to lead to papers for publication. 2. Address the bottleneck in AI safety/strategy of few experts being available to train or organize aspiring researchers by efficiently using expert time. 3. Create a clear path from ‘interested/concerned’ to ‘active researcher’. 4. Test a new method for bootstrapping talent-constrained research fields. Method: Run an online research group culminating in a two week intensive in-person research camp. Participants will work in groups on tightly-defined research projects on the following topics: * Agent foundations * Machine learning safety * Policy & strategy * Human values Projects will be proposed by participants prior to the start of the program. Expert advisors from AI Safety/Strategy organisations will help refine them into proposals that are tractable, suitable for this research environment, and answer currently unsolved research questions. This allows for time-efficient use of advisors’ domain knowledge and research experience, and ensures that research is well-aligned with current priorities. Participants will then split into groups to work on these research questions in online collaborative groups over a period of several months. This period will culminate in a two week in-person research camp aimed at turning this exploratory research into first drafts of publishable research papers. This will also allow for cross-disciplinary conversations and community building, although the goal is primarily research output. Following the two week camp, advisors will give fe
