Comment by akshayaurora on AI Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator (ARENA): Call for applicants v4.0 · 2024-07-29T22:04:19.746Z · LW · GW

ARENA has been successful because we had some of the best in the field TA-ing with us and consulting with us on curriculum design.

I personally love the ARENA curriculum, it has probably the single greatest resource that has helped me learning about current state of AI. I've also done couple of specializations on Coursera, but found the exercises lot easier - which also meant I didn't use everything I learnt in videos. On the contrary, all the ARENA exercises are challenging - but you also learn a lot more and it has definitely been more satisfying and rewarding journey for me.

Comment by akshayaurora on AI Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator (ARENA): Call for applicants v4.0 · 2024-07-29T19:42:01.636Z · LW · GW

Curious, if there are success stories to share from previous runs of ARENA? Example, maybe people publishing safety research or joining safety research labs.