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AI safety fellowships urged to offer better feedback for applicants

An AI safety researcher suggests improvements for fellowship application processes, advocating for more constructive feedback to rejected candidates. The author proposes that fellowships provide detailed recommendation letters for promising applicants, outlining specific strengths and weaknesses. This would help candidates improve and allow other fellowships to expedite their review process, ultimately making the field more effective. AI

IMPACT Suggests improvements for AI safety fellowship application processes to better identify and support promising talent.

RANK_REASON The article offers an opinion and suggestions on a process within the AI safety field, rather than announcing a new development.

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AI safety fellowships urged to offer better feedback for applicants

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  1. LessWrong (AI tag) TIER_1 English(EN) · beyarkay ·

    Thoughts on interviewing candidates for AI safety fellowships

    <p><span>Around July last year I decided I was going to go all in on technical AI safety research. To do that I’d need to get into an AI safety fellowship, quit my job, and sell everything that was in my flat in South Africa (hopefully in that order).</span></p><p><span>I applied…