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Building the AI safety & security field @MATSprogram
Berkeley, CA ryankidd.ai Joined March 2019
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AI safety needs more groundbreaking research paradigms and experienced researchers, including mid-career experts transitioning from physics, maths, neuroscience, economics, law, policy and more! The MATS Residency is a 6-24 month pathway, with $155-285k/year + compute.
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1/ MATS is launching the Residency program!
A new path for experienced researchers working on AI safety, or moving into it.

📍 Berkeley / London / Washington, DC
💰 $155,000–$285,000/yr + compute, no preset cap
📅 6–24 months

Apply by October 31 AoE ↓
matsprogram.org/residency?utm_…
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As the world's information is increasingly shaped by AI, it's vital that we can discern truth from clever persuasion. I'm excited by epistemics technologies like community notes, AI detectors, and prediction markets. @NathanpmYoung just launched a fund to make more!
epistemic.fund
epistemic.fund Epistemics fund. Please apply! Ought plans to make $500k to $5M in grants to community notes, provenance tracking, forecasting and other tools that help people work out what's true.
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I love this post by David Africa on the clashing frames in AI safety: building for wartime vs. civilisation.
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Why are many orgs aggressively hiring/scaling up, yet it's extremely hard to find a full time position?

Why are there calls to expand the number of people doing research in AI safety, yet our academic institutions are crumbling under the weight of the sheer number of papers and outputs?

Why are we exhorted to do research slowly and deeply, yet sped along on crunch time, with the hope that scale will clarify our confusions?

In this new blogpost (done in my personal time), I argue that these are rooted in a tension between a frame of "war mode" and "civilisation mode". This tension, in my view, creates uneasiness and despair, as well as makes it difficult to see clearly.

Check it out on LW: lesswrong.com/posts/7e38jwHh…

or on Substack: davidafrica.substack.com/p/near-horizon…
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