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James Campbell reposted vie ⋄ 🔁✔ @viemccoy . 9h my main point of advice for people looking to work in AI safety is this: make sure you are actually working on safety, and not just moving food around on your plate. I think there a lot of instances of really incredible research techniques being developed that nobody uses because too little time is spent socializing discoveries, and the bulk of the comms effort is put towards awareness-of-risk rather than something closer to actually convincing researchers at bigger labs to use your techniques. this criticism isn't meant to be targeting any orgs in particular. I mostly want people to be asking the question: are you actually making a difference? or are you just shooting papers off into the dark hoping an agent will one day ingest it
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Tweet from vie (@viemccoy) advising AI safety researchers to ensure their work has real impact rather than being performative; argues too much comms effort goes to risk-awareness messaging instead of getting labs to actually adopt safety research techniques.