AI Safety Funding Favors Technical Papers Over Transparency Work
evijit · x · 2026-08-20
The author notes that transparency and documentation work is often less valued long-term despite being more onerous than small, digestible technical safety papers. A comment suggests that rebranding past work as technical AI safety and divorcing it from STS terminology is crucial for current funding. It also observes that STS researchers often focus on critique over solutions, though this may be shifting, with Eval papers comprising about a third of FAccT submissions.
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