Germany’s Got Talent. How do we get it to work on AI safety? by Melanie

SummaryI in­ter­viewed 14 peo­ple work­ing full-time in AI safety who came through the Ger­man ecosys­tem to find out how they got in and what would help oth­ers to do the same. A cou­ple of pat­terns emerged:12 out of the 14 in­ter­vie­wees en­tered via an EA chan­nel; this shouldn’t be read as “most peo­ple in AI safety are EAs,” but it does sug­gest the on-ramp works.At least 7 of 14 did a self-di­rected pro­ject be­fore they got a paid po­si­tion. Most peo­ple in the field don’t have a 10-ye...