Stop telling people to pivot to AI safety, I beg you
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I’m very frustrated with calls for people to “drop everything and pivot into AI safety” like this one.
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I’m very frustrated with calls for people to “drop everything and pivot into AI safety” like this one. (See also this, this, this, this for recent calls for more people to go into AI safety; though my frustration was triggered by the Celeste's post.)There are far more talented people trying to get into AI safety than there are jobs for them.[1] MLAB 2, which I did in 2022, was already competitive to get into, at about 5% a
By Haoxing Du