Aspiring Jr. AI safety researchers: what's stopping you? | Survey

By carolinaollive @ 2024-10-29T11:27 (+14)

Edit: 
Very kind people have reached out expressing concern (quote below). So due to this, I feel compelled to add this project started due to me and my collaborators arriving at the same conclusions in our respective projects (Condor Initiative, ML4G, and at a point CEEALAR). We made this as anonymous as possible to prevent survey responders from anchoring on our intentions, while also maintaining survey responders anonymous. DM's open! :)

"I think just indicating some of your affiliations (past or present) and even vaguely indicating what it is for would be good. Just because there is a risk otherwise that a) people perceive it as weirdly evasive/possibly sketchy when it is not and b) to generally avoid random people or bad actors posting near-anonymous stuff on the forum and harvesting people's information etc."

This very small survey (~5min) will help us get insight into your path, put some of our assumptions in check, and help us cater more to your needs.

P.s.: if nothing is stopping/has stopped you, we also welcome your replies to the survey.

*At this time, I won't be providing too much context as to what the project is aiming to execute just be assured me and my collaborators are looking forward to bridge some gaps between Jr. -> Sr. AI safety researcher. :)