Scholars Debate Transparency Work in AI Funding Climate
evijit · x · 2026-08-20
The post discusses the status of transparency and documentation work in AI, noting that despite being labor-intensive, it often lacks long-term funding support. It touches on rebranding past work as 'technical AI safety' to fit the current funding landscape and critiques STS researchers for focusing more on critique than solutions, though this may be shifting.
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