I'm an experienced software engineer. How can I contribute to AI safety?

AI safety needs excellent software engineers.

AI safety needs excellent software engineers. You can already start contributing to making AI go well, even without deep ML expertise. Here are three broad ways how: Scale AI safety research Build tools for AI safety researchers Contribute directly to AI safety research This blog post was written for graduates of BlueDot’s Technical AI Safety course who want to contribute their software engineering skills. This means taking promising safety experiments that work on 1,000 examples and running them efficiently on millions, or moving from single GPUs to distributed clusters. This path…

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