Debate: Is AI Eval/Safety Work Really Only for a Tiny Talent Pool?
JacquesThibs · x · 2026-09-18
Sentdex pushes back on the claim that only "very few" people can work on evals/safety/alignment — arguing the perceived scarcity comes from counting only the 60-80 brilliant folks aligned with EA-style danger assessments. JacquesThibs responds that the real bottleneck is institutional: outsiders didn't build eval capacity because they weren't focused on AI risk, and shares his contract work building an app for CG that successfully surfaced non-EA researchers for funding.
Related event: Sentdex Blasts EA Monopoly on Frontier Lab Safety Work(3 posts)→
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