AI Governance Needs Technical Work

People who want to improve the trajectory of AI sometimes think their options for object-level work are (i) technical safety work and (ii) non-technical governance work. But that list misses things; another group of arguably promising options is technical work in AI governance, i.e. technical work that mainly boosts AI governance interventions. This post provides a brief overview of some ways to do this work—what they are, why they might be valuable, and what you can do if you’re interested. I discuss: Engineering technical levers to make AI coordination/regulation enforceable (through hardware engineering, software/ML engineering, and heat/electromagnetism-related engineering) Information security Forecasting AI development Technical standards development Grantmaking or management to get others to do the above well Advising on the above.

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https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/BJtekdKrAufyKhBGw/ai-governance-needs-technical-work

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