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I asked and the AI Safety Memtors and Mentees Project is no longer active.
I’d love to see someone else start something similar:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CCXSdmkPvrLQZgyCk/announcing-ai-safety-mentors-and-mentees
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What is the bottleneck: There aren't a lot of people who are well established in things like AI Safety or AI Governance because these fields are relatively young. There are a lot of people interested in entering these fields because AI has recently become much more legibly a problem. So there are more newcomers than experienced experts. We want experienced experts to actually do the thing they're expert in, not just mentor newcomers. So there's a limit to how many new people can get mentored per year.
What is the solution: I don't really know what kind of solution you're looking for. Spend more money to hire more experienced experts? It seems like we are doing this, but it's hard to hire good people, especially in relatively new fields. I guess it would help to have more funding if that's what you want to focus on?
I think the effect you describe makes sense, you can’t just grow a field arbitrarily fast.
But I think it might be useful to talk more about wheter we still think that trying to get into one of these very competitive programmes is currently still the best use of the talented people who are happy to use their career to do the most good.