Key Resource
If you want to read only one piece, read this.
Career Review: US AI Policy - 80,000 Hours (2020)
If you’re a thoughtful American interested in developing expertise and technical abilities in the domain of AI policy, then this may be one of your highest impact options
Career Review: AI Policy - 80,000 Hours (2017)
For the right person, work on these issues is among the most promising ways to make a contribution to the world today.
Further Resources
AI Governance: Opportunity and Theory of Impact - EA Forum (Allan Dafoe; 2020)
I believe advances in AI are likely to be among the most impactful global developments in the coming decades, and that AI governance will become among the most important global issue areas. AI governance is a new field and is relatively neglected.
The longtermist AI governance landscape: a basic overview - EA Forum (Sam Clarke; 2022)
This post outlines the different kinds of work happening in longtermist AI governance. For each kind of work, I’ll explain it, give examples, sketch some stories for how it could have a positive impact, and list the actors I’m aware of who are currently working on it.
A personal take on longtermist AI governance - EA Forum (lukeprog; 2021)
In this post, I briefly recap the key points of my previous post, explain what I see as the key bottlenecks in the space, and share my current opinions about how people sympathetic to longtermism and/or AI existential risk mitigation can best contribute today.
Selected List
US Congress:
Relevant committees:
- Armed services committees
- Intelligence committees
- Appropriations committees
- Commerce committees
Executive branch:
—> List of US AI policy organizations: https://80000hours.org/articles/us-ai-policy/#where-to-aim-long-term
- National AI Initiative Office (NAIO), Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), White House
- Joint AI Center (JAIC), Department of Defense (DoD)
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Department of Commerce (DoC)
[For future reference:]
White House
- National Security Council
- Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Department of Defense (DoD)
- Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research & Engineering
- DARPA
- Defense Science Board
- Defense Innovation Board
- Defense Innovation Unit
- Office of Net Assessment
- Research laboratories of each of the armed services
- Cyber Command
Intelligence Community
- IARPA
- In-Q-Tel
- National Security Agency (NSA)
Thinktanks/nonprofits:
- Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology Initiative, Brookings Institution
Academia:
- Center for Security and Emerging Technology, Georgetown University
Selected List
Top opportunities:
AI Governance Track - AGI Safety Fundamentals Course, EA Cambridge
Selected List
Books:
- The New Fire (2022), Ben Buchanan
Online course:
- EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament eLearning Course (Modules 4 and 5 deal with nuclear weapons specifically, but the course in general is recommended)
