What happens after we bring people into AI safety?
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Getting people into the field is only half the job.
TL;DR: AI safety spends a lot of effort bringing people into the field, but I’m less sure we pay enough attention to what happens afterward: whether people find roles and managers that work for them, build lives around the work that they can sustain, and stay connected to people outside the ecosystem. Burnout and difficulty switching off seem like real problems, and I think some of the broader social and professional concerns are worth probing too. I’m running a SPAR project to investigate one part I think is especially underexplored: how deeper involvement in AI safety affects relationships…
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