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* To determine whether AI is ‘improving exponentially’, ‘hitting the wall’, or any other claim which involves a quantity or magnitude (e.g. ‘This model was a big leap/small increment’). We need a good y-axis: an interval scale of AI capability which means +1 unit always represents the same degree of ‘how much better’, in the same way +1 degree Celsius is always the same amount of ‘how much hotter’.
* Yet there is no good y-axis for AI capability. All our...
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TechCongress, an org that places technologists in the offices of members of US Congress to write policy, has opened an AI Safety Fellowship with applications due in just 10 days, on June 12
https://www.techcongress.io/ai-safety-fellowship
It pays well too. It is distinct from U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute with Paul Christiano and others, which I believe is in the executive branch, not the legislative branch like this one.
I think TechCongress, despite the name, does do Executive branch placements and I think this role in particular is targeted to the executive branch