Sep 2, 2024

AI Safety Collective - Crowdsourcing Solutions for Critical AI Safety Challenges

Lye Jia Jun, Dhruba Patra, Philipp Blandfort

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Summary

The AI Safety Collective is a global platform designed to enhance AI safety by crowdsourcing solutions to critical AI Safety challenges. As AI systems like large language models and multimodal systems become more prevalent, ensuring their safety is increasingly difficult. This platform will allow AI companies to post safety challenges, offering bounties for solutions. AI Safety experts and enthusiasts worldwide can contribute, earning rewards for their efforts.

The project focuses initially on non-catastrophic risks to attract a wide range of participants, with plans to expand into more complex areas. Key risks, such as quality control and safety, will be managed through peer review and risk assessment. Overall, The AI Safety Collective aims to drive innovation, accountability, and collaboration in the field of AI safety.

Cite this work:

@misc {

title={

AI Safety Collective - Crowdsourcing Solutions for Critical AI Safety Challenges

},

author={

Lye Jia Jun, Dhruba Patra, Philipp Blandfort

},

date={

9/2/24

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organization={Apart Research},

note={Research submission to the research sprint hosted by Apart.},

howpublished={https://apartresearch.com}

}

Reviewer's Comments

Reviewer's Comments

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Minh Nguyen

I think this is a wonderful idea, partly because I launched something like this 2 years ago: https://www.super-linear.org/

You are approximately correct in your assessments. Some pointers:

1. Starting out, it’s not super hard to get postings. People post informal prizes/bounties fairly frequently across EA channels (Bountied Rationality FB group is a great reference point).

2. The issue is that you basically cap out pretty fast - EA/alignment remains very small and bounties are an even smaller subset of this (if you think about it, general-purpose ad-hoc bounty/contract platforms aren’t even that big). This implies relying on small ad-hoc prizes at scale doesn’t work super well.

3. Instead, Manifund has a cool approach to this - it’s more of a GoFundMe for big AI Safety projects. This makes more sense because “big-ticket posts” have more effort and momentum put into them, so you get more actual activity going.

Feel free to reach out to me if you’d like to follow up on this. Manifund people are friendly too, and they’ll prolly welcome any questions you have. The focus is slightly different (general AI Safety/fieldbuilding vs AI Safety technical security), but >60% of the lesson would carry over prolly.

In the mean time, here is a list of several thousand misc AI Safety/alignment bounty ideas individually sourced and compiled by me from across the EA/alignment internet. Mostly fieldbuilding focused but some technical. Enjoy!: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JiuqMFi4BonKRnJQsTB3R8Y7eGShqRovDl-S24v6qsA/edit?gid=0#gid=0

Also check out Neel Nanda's open mech interp problems doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p-ggQV3vVWIQuCccXEl1fD0thJOgXimlbBpGk6FI32I/edit

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