How much of ML research is about AI safety, what is it about, and who’s doing it? by emanuelr

How many AI safety pa­pers are at the big ML con­fer­ences, what do they study, and who writes them? A com­pre­hen­sive anal­y­sis.> Web­site: https://​​ai-safety-tracker-web­site.ver­cel.app/​​> Data, code and plots: https://​​github.com/​​So­maxSoma/​​AI-Safety-Re­search-TrackerTL;DR: We clas­sified ev­ery pa­per ac­cepted at ICLR, ICML and NeurIPS from 2019 through 2026, us­ing an LLM that reads each ti­tle and ab­stract. 2,328 of them (4.2%) are AI safety pa­pers. Safety’s share of ac­cepted...