This might be the last AI Safety Camp

We are organising the 9th edition without funds. We have no personal runway left to do this again. We will not run the 10th edition without funding. In a nutshell: Last month, we put out AI Safety Camp's funding case.  A private donor then decided to donate €5K.   Five more donors offered $7K on Manifund.  For that $7K to not be wiped out and returned, another $21K in funding is needed. At that level, we may be able to run a minimal version of AI Safety Camp next year, where we get research leads started in the first 2.5 months, and leave the rest to them.  The current edition is off to a productive start!  A total of 130 participants joined, spread over 26 projects. The projects are diverse – from agent foundations, to mechanistic interpretability, to copyright litigation.  Our personal runways are running out.  If we do [...]--- First published: January 24th, 2024 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/EAZjXKNN2vgoJGF9Y/this-might-be-the-last-ai-safety-camp --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.