A LessWrong post speculates on which technical AI safety fields are most likely to be automated by advanced AI systems. The author considers factors like feedback quality and economic incentives for frontier labs to automate research. Fields like scalable oversight and mechanistic interpretability are identified as prime candidates for automation due to their potential to accelerate both safety and capability research. AI
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IMPACT Speculation on automation of AI safety research may inform future research directions and resource allocation.
RANK_REASON The cluster contains a speculative blog post discussing potential future automation of AI safety research fields.