Creators & Makers - AI Safety Voices & Career Transition Grant

An update from me. I’ve recently been awarded a 6 month Career Transition Grant by BlueDot Impact A lot of conversations we’ve all been having over the past few years, have been about how AI is going to affect the future. Will I lose my job? Who gets to be in charge of it? How can it actually help me? It’s a technology with enormous potential for good - new ways of doing science, education and communication. There’s a future where we all end up happier, healthier and more connected if we play our cards right. If we don’t, we risk creating something that could cause catastrophic harm. AI isn’t a bad social media algorithm - its reach could stretch much further than a chat window. Bio-risk, disempowerment, mass-concentrations of power. It’s a systemic technology that presents complex issues to our entire society. There are things we can do to steer it though. We can research alignment and safeguards, create defenses, write policies and regulations and deploy systems we understand and that we can control. I didn’t really want to sit around selling products and making videos that weren’t making the world a better place. AI needs people who aren’t just sat in the offices of big tech. It needs creators and makers and the voices of normal people. I’m just trying to understand the world, and where it might be going. I’m going to try and bring more people along with me. I’ll be making content on what I think matters and what more people should know about. I want to bring more people into the space who also feel like they need a voice and help champion creators who have something to say. A huge and sincere thank you to everyone who has guided, supported and poked me into this interesting direction over the past months. Anders Edson Michael Bennett James Newport Li-Lian Ang Joshua Landes Hannah Openshaw Mahyar Bordbar Pablo Sprechmann Steph Hughes-Fitt to name a few. If you’re at all interested in AI safety, and want to know how you can have a voice in steering the future of how AI might affect you then drop me a line! Let’s chat! It’s not as hard as you might think. If you’re in AI safety or are an AI safety org who wants help getting your message out there - my DMs are open. Enough cringe posting. J