AI safety prizes by OscarD🔸

Rather than pay­ing up front for AI safety re­search (push fund­ing), per­haps we should pay af­ter the fact for the work that made the most progress (pull fund­ing). This way, you only pay for work that was ac­tu­ally valuable.[1] When we know what the tar­get is, but not how to get there or who is best placed to solve the prob­lem, a prize is a use­ful in­cen­tive struc­ture.Benefits of prizesPrizes work well to in­cen­tivise in­no­va­tion when:The even­tual win­ner is un­pre­dictable (oth­er­...