Last year, I wrote a post about my upskilling in AI alignment. To this day, I still get people occasionally reaching out to me because of this article, to ask questions about getting into the field themselves. I’ve also had several occasions to link people to the article who asked me about getting into the field from other means, like my local AI Safety group.

Essentially, what this means is that people clearly found this useful (credit to the EA Forum for managing to let the article be findable to those who need it, a year after its publication!) and therefore people would likely find a sequel useful too! This post is that sequel, but reading the first post is not necessary to read this one.

The major lesson of this post is this: I made a ton of mistakes, but those mistakes taught me things. By being [...]

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Outline:

(02:38) List of Lessons

(03:58) SERI MATS

(09:24) Mechanistic Interpretability

(11:53) Project

(15:25) Applications and Future Plans

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First published:
January 8th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EJqGTpinaHN3uoZnR/reflections-on-my-first-year-of-ai-safety-research

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“Reflections on my first year of AI safety research” by Jay Bailey

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“Reflections on my first year of AI safety research” by Jay Bailey