People who are totally unconnected to the EA/LessWrong/Rationalist/AI safety scene are increasingly asking me how they can pivot their career to help AI go well.
Is there a canonical entry point to share with people? There's aisafety.com's list of training programs, or 80,000 hours' career advising calls/AI chat, or Bluedot's courses; are there any others that people recommend?
Hm.. i think the whole problem with sending links is that there's way too much capital C crap everywhere - links galore. Coaching programs exist largely to help people weed out whats relevant & personalized to them (could this be a scalable product? hm)
This exists: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-safety-field-guide-i-wish-id-had-benedikt-oehmen-yttge/?trackingId=HY3mwWrabmAMwyeet47c7Q%3D%3D
My post-event emails as a reference: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/EhLhrrEEG6Jo9kYJv/learnings-from-a-viral-linkedin-post-what-ai-safety-means-to
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/GPxMDHApaLwL3phjv/ai-safety-career-fair-and-builders-summit-sf-retrospective
Having also done coaching, I do just frequently share the same links with most people I talk with. It does seem to help a little bit when you say to their face "this is a great resource" though, and even better if you can specifically justify to someone why this is a good resource for someone in their position.
I'm curious how well Stampy, 80ks AI advisor or Lens Academy's coach do at this.
In my experience, you run into these problems when you try to do this:
For reference, here's the bare bones version we came up with for AI Safety Quest: https://aisafety.quest/#calls where we explicitly went for "short list of stable resources that are introductory, but require effort from the reader to go in depth".