The Nonlinear Library LW - This might be the last AI Safety Camp by Remmelt
Jan 24, 2024
01:55
Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: This might be the last AI Safety Camp, published by Remmelt on January 24, 2024 on LessWrong.
We are organising the 9th edition without funds. We have no personal runway left to do this again. We will not run the 10th edition without funding.
In a nutshell:
Last month, we put out AI Safety Camp's
funding case.
A private donor then decided to donate €5K.
Five more donors offered $7K on
Manifund.
For that $7K to not be wiped out and returned, another $21K in funding is needed. At that level, we may be able to run a minimal version of AI Safety Camp next year, where we get research leads started in the first 2.5 months, and leave the rest to them.
The current edition is off to a productive start!
A total of 130 participants joined, spread over 26 projects. The
projects are diverse - from agent foundations, to mechanistic interpretability, to copyright litigation.
Our personal runways are running out.
If we do not get the funding, we have to move on. It's hard to start a program again once organisers move on, so this likely means the end of AI Safety Camp.
We commissioned Arb Research to do an
impact assessment.
One preliminary result is that AISC creates one new AI safety researcher per around $12k-$30k USD of funding.
How can you support us:
Spread the word. When we tell people AISC doesn't have any money, most people are surprised. If more people knew of our situation, we believe we would get the donations we need.
Donate. Make a donation through
Manifund to help us reach the $28K threshold.
Reach out to remmelt@aisafety.camp for other donation options.
Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org
We are organising the 9th edition without funds. We have no personal runway left to do this again. We will not run the 10th edition without funding.
In a nutshell:
Last month, we put out AI Safety Camp's
funding case.
A private donor then decided to donate €5K.
Five more donors offered $7K on
Manifund.
For that $7K to not be wiped out and returned, another $21K in funding is needed. At that level, we may be able to run a minimal version of AI Safety Camp next year, where we get research leads started in the first 2.5 months, and leave the rest to them.
The current edition is off to a productive start!
A total of 130 participants joined, spread over 26 projects. The
projects are diverse - from agent foundations, to mechanistic interpretability, to copyright litigation.
Our personal runways are running out.
If we do not get the funding, we have to move on. It's hard to start a program again once organisers move on, so this likely means the end of AI Safety Camp.
We commissioned Arb Research to do an
impact assessment.
One preliminary result is that AISC creates one new AI safety researcher per around $12k-$30k USD of funding.
How can you support us:
Spread the word. When we tell people AISC doesn't have any money, most people are surprised. If more people knew of our situation, we believe we would get the donations we need.
Donate. Make a donation through
Manifund to help us reach the $28K threshold.
Reach out to remmelt@aisafety.camp for other donation options.
Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org