New talent is coming to AI safety. What happens next? by Enisa Ismaili

13 peo­ple with an av­er­age of 15 years of pro­fes­sional ex­pe­rience in tech­nol­ogy, policy, op­er­a­tions, law, con­sult­ing, and com­mu­ni­ca­tions de­scribed en­ter­ing AI safety as the most com­pli­cated ca­reer tran­si­tion they had un­der­taken. While part of it can be the­o­ret­i­cally ex­plained by the fea­tures of the do­main it­self and of the roles the tran­si­tion­ers were pur­su­ing, we want to ex­plore if we could learn from their ex­pe­rience. In this ar­ti­cle, we look at AI ...