The case for AI safety capacity-building work

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TL;DR: I think many of the marginal hires at larger organizations doing AI safety technical or policy work right now (including e.g. Apollo, Redwood, METR, RAND, GovAI, Epoch, UKAISI, and Anthropic’s safety teams) would be capable of founding (or being early employees of) organizations focused on building capacity in AI safety, and would have more impact by doing so. I think the impact case for this kind of work is supported by first-principles arguments (the multiplier effect), larger-scale survey work my team at Coefficient Giving has done, and many individual conversations we’ve had…

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• Lydia Nottingham

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