“Results of an informal survey on AI grantmaking” by Scott Alexander

I asked readers of my blog with experience in AI alignment (and especially AI grantmaking) to fill out a survey about how they valued different goods. I got 61 responses. I disqualified 11 for various reasons, mostly failing the comprehension check question at the beginning, and kept 50. Because I didn't have a good way to represent the value of "a" dollar for people who might have very different amounts of money managed, I instead asked people to value things in terms of a base unit - a program like MATS graduating one extra technical alignment researcher (at the center, not the margin). So for example, someone might say that "creating" a new AI journalist was worth "creating" two new technical alignment researchers, or vice versa. One of the goods that I asked people to value was $1 million going to a smart, value-aligned grantmaker. This provided a sort [...] The original text contained 1 image which was described by AI. --- First published: August 21st, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/E7pkeDruknpSa7j3i/results-of-an-informal-survey-on-ai-grantmaking --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.