We are organising the 9th edition without funds. We have no personal runway left to do this again. We will not run the 10th edition without funding.
In a nutshell:
- Last month, we put out AI Safety Camp's funding case.
A private donor then decided to donate €5K.
- Five more donors offered $7K on Manifund.
For that $7K to not be wiped out and returned, another $21K in funding is needed. At that level, we may be able to run a minimal version of AI Safety Camp next year, where we get research leads started in the first 2.5 months, and leave the rest to them.
- The current edition is off to a productive start!
A total of 130 participants joined, spread over 26 projects. The projects are diverse – from agent foundations, to mechanistic interpretability, to copyright litigation.
- Our personal runways are running out.
If we do [...]
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First published: January 24th, 2024
Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EAZjXKNN2vgoJGF9Y/this-might-be-the-last-ai-safety-camp ---
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