Economists in AI Safety: A Pipeline from BlueDot to MATS
aniketapanjwani · x · 2026-08-05
The author argues that economists have significant opportunities in AI safety, particularly in areas like model evaluations, benchmarking, and even mechanistic interpretability. This effectively applies econometric identification techniques to attribute and solve model behavior issues.
They also shared a practical career pipeline for economists to enter the AI safety space:
- Start with free trainings from BlueDot to learn deep learning and safety basics.
- Join programs like ARENA to tech up on deep learning, RL, and technical safety.
- Apply for fellowships like MATS to get advised by safety researchers from top AI labs.
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