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“What were mistakes of AI Safety field-building? How can we avoid them while we build the AI Welfare?” by guneyulasturker 🔸
AI Safety is an area that emerged from the EA community. EAs made the first significant efforts to build this field, and I’d say they have done a pretty good job overall. The number of people working on AI Safety has been increasing exponentially. However, many believe that the field-building efforts were not perfect. One example is that the talent pipeline has become over-optimized for researchers.
We now seem to be entering a similar stage with AI Welfare. Following Longview's recent grants, the number of people working on issues related to digital sentience is starting to grow. Field-building efforts are likely to begin during this period, and we may soon see a new area that is closely connected to EA developing and becoming an independent field, much like AI Safety.
AI Welfare is a complex area. Empirical research is difficult and requires deep philosophical reasoning. Communication can be seen [...]
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First published:
October 27th, 2025
Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/TxkxN4EdMZaHGrCcv/what-were-mistakes-of-ai-safety-field-building-how-can-we
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.
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By EA Forum TeamAI Safety is an area that emerged from the EA community. EAs made the first significant efforts to build this field, and I’d say they have done a pretty good job overall. The number of people working on AI Safety has been increasing exponentially. However, many believe that the field-building efforts were not perfect. One example is that the talent pipeline has become over-optimized for researchers.
We now seem to be entering a similar stage with AI Welfare. Following Longview's recent grants, the number of people working on issues related to digital sentience is starting to grow. Field-building efforts are likely to begin during this period, and we may soon see a new area that is closely connected to EA developing and becoming an independent field, much like AI Safety.
AI Welfare is a complex area. Empirical research is difficult and requires deep philosophical reasoning. Communication can be seen [...]
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First published:
October 27th, 2025
Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/TxkxN4EdMZaHGrCcv/what-were-mistakes-of-ai-safety-field-building-how-can-we
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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.