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So you want to work on technical AI safety — LessWrong

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I’ve been to two EAGx events and one EAG, and the vast majority of my one on ones with junior people end up covering some subset of these questions. I’m happy to have such conversations, but hopefully this is more efficient and wide-reaching (and more than I could fit into a 30 minute conversation). I am specifically aiming to cover advice on getting a job in empirically-leaning technical research (interp, evals, red-teaming, oversight, etc) for new or aspiring researchers without being overly specific about the field of research – I’ll try to be more agnostic than something like Neel Nanda’s mechinterp quickstart guide but more specific than the wealth of career advice that already exists but that applies to ~any career. This also has some overlap with this excellent list of tips from Ethan Perez but is aimed a bit earlier in the funnel. This advice is of course only from my perspective and background, which is that I did a PhD in combinatorics, worked as a software engineer at startu

x So you want to work on technical AI safety — LessWrong AI Alignment Intro Materials Careers AI Practical Frontpage 53 So you want to work on technical AI safety by gw 24th Jun 2024 17 min read 3 53 I’ve been to two EAGx events and one EAG, and the vast majority of my one on ones with junior people end up covering some subset of these questions. I’m happy to have such conversations, but hopefully this is more efficient and wide-reaching (and more than I could fit into a 30 minute conversation). I am specifically aiming to cover advice on getting a job in empirically-leaning technical research

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