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AI x-risk reduction: why I chose academia over industry

📅 2021
policy development
⚪ Common
#ai #mentorship [topic of] #world optimization

📖 Description

I've been leaning towards a career in academia for >3 years, and recently got a tenure track role at Cambridge. This post sketches out my reasoning for preferring academia over industry. **Thoughts on Industry Positions:** A lot of people working on AI x-risk seem to think it's better to be in industry. I think the main arguments for that side of things are:

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Research +5 Always
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"Interesting perspective on safety challenges"
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"Discussed in AI safety community"
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