List of projects that seem impactful for AI Governance
(Cross-posted from EA Forum.) Goals of this post The main goal of this post is to clarify what projects can be done at the frontier of AI Governance. Indirect goals are: * Inspiring people to work on new and fruitful projects. * Providing possible projects for newcomers. * Staking out new projects for ENAIS. * Promoting discussion on projects’ merit through making this list public. How we collected the list We filtered for posts from the last 14 months (with one exception) with at least 15 karma (usually >100). This post is mostly a collection of ideas from other posts/articles, but any errors are our own. We do recommend reading the original posts for additional context. We did not filter the projects in these posts; we neither in- or excluded projects based on our views, nor did we remove potentially controversial projects. Through just stating the projects, we hope to invoke Cunningham’s law to improve the projects and provide context on their expected value. Moreover, our collection methods meant that the projects have widely varying scopes and difficulty levels. Additionally, many of these projects could have many subprojects. We (Jaime and Teun from ENAIS) spent less than 30 hours in total on this post. We might decide to do a deeper research based on how the post is received. Before you start on a project If you are interested in any of the projects, we recommend you to check what has been done before. We did not look into this, the status of these projects may have changed between the posts being published, and you starting working on it. If you find out that a project already has been addressed to some extent, you could add value building on top of it, reviewing what has been done and flagging errors, collecting different views in one report, etc. List of projects Writing Here we suggest any kind of project where the outcome is something written: post, paper, report, … Variants of each of these suggestions with different scopes are o
Thanks for sharing this! Great to see the impact of ARENA!
According to the OpenPhil public grant[1] this iteration of Arena got £245,895, and with this you were able to achieve the points mentioned in this post right?
Also it is great to hear that there are 4 new people working in AIS thanks to the program! It would be nice to know how did you manage it (and what was the counterfactual). Getting 4 people through full hiring processes within 4 weeks seems impresive, did you manage because they got jobs at orgs who were also at LISA? or there were other networking effects or other factors that made this possible?
[1] https://www.openphilanthropy.org/grants/alignment-research-engineer-accelerator-ai-safety-technical-program-2024/