Workshop (hackathon, residence program, etc.) about for-profit AI Safety projects?

post by Roman Leventov · 2024-01-26T09:49:30.836Z · LW · GW · 2 comments

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Reading posts like "This might be the last AI Safety Camp [LW · GW]" makes me feel very sad. The degree to which AI Safety is currently funding-constrained is clearly inadequate on the national and civilisational levels.

Maybe let's try to make a smart counter-move and accelerate the development of for-profit AI Safety projects [LW · GW] (see also the comments to that post, and this post [LW · GW])? With the obvious idea to pull some VC money, which is a different pool than AI safety philanthropic funds.

Potential collaborations:

P.S. I'm not a professional organiser or community builder, nor a startup accelerator program manager, so just floating the idea, but I'd be very eager to participate if something like this is organised.

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answer by Kabir Kumar · 2024-01-26T12:41:50.921Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

We're doing this at AI-Plans.com!! With the Critique-a-Thon and the Law-a-Thon!

↑ comment by David James (david-james) · 2024-05-08T10:57:37.413Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Would you please expand on how ai-plans.com addresses the question from the post above ... ?

Maybe let's try to make a smart counter-move and accelerate the development of for-profit AI Safety projects [...] ? With the obvious idea to pull some VC money, which is a different pool than AI safety philanthropic funds.

I took a look at ai-plans, but I have yet to find information about:

  1. How does it work?
  2. Who created it?
  3. What is the motivation for building it?
  4. What problem(s) will ai-plans help solve?
  5. Who controls / curates / moderates it?
  6. What is the process/algorithm for: curation? moderation? ranking?

I would suggest (i) answering these questions on the ai-plans website itself then (ii) adding links here.

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↑ comment by Kabir Kumar (kabir-kumar-1) · 2024-05-08T16:52:15.441Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Thank you. We just had some writers join, who're, among other things, going to make an up to date About Us section. some out of date stuff is available on https://aiplans.substack.com
Something that we use internally is:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wcVlWRTKJqiXOvKNl6PMHCBF3pQItCCcnYwlWvGgFpc/edit?usp=sharing

We're primarily focused on making a site rebuild atm, which has a lot of new and improved features users have been asking for. Preview (lots of form factor stuff broken atm) at: https://ai-plans-site.pages.dev/

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comment by the gears to ascension (lahwran) · 2024-01-26T19:49:56.216Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

For profit means investors expect to extract money from the organization. It doesn't mean that the organization has enough income to be self sustaining, and in fact increases the pressure to make income at the expense of any main mission.

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↑ comment by Roman Leventov · 2024-01-26T23:24:54.899Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

See a discussion of this point here [LW(p) · GW(p)] with Marius Hobbhahn and others.