Apply to AI Safety Camp 2024 by 1st December 2023. All mistakes here are my own.

Below are some summaries for each project proposal, listed in order of how they appear on the website. These are edited by me, and most have not yet been reviewed by the project leads. I think having a list like this makes it easier for people to navigate all the different projects, and the original post/website did not have one, so I made this.

If a project catches your interest, click on the title to read more about it.

Note that the summarisation here is lossy. The desired skills as here may be misrepresented, and if you are interested, you should check the original project for more details. In particular, many of the "desired skills" are often listed such that having only a few would be helpful, but this isn't consistent.

List of AISC Projects

To not build uncontrollable AI

1. Towards realistic ODDs for foundation model based AI offerings

Project Lead: Igor Krawczuk

Goal: Current methods for alignment applied to language models is akin to "blacklisting" behaviours that are bad. Operational Design Domain (OOD) is instead, akin to more exact "whitelisting" design principles, and now allowing deviations from this. The project wants to build a proof of concept, and show that this is hopefully feasible, economical and effective.

Team (Looking for 4-6 people):

"Spec Researcher": Draft the spec for guidelines, and publish a request for comments. Should have experience in safety settings
"Mining Researcher": Look for use cases, and draft the "slicing" of OOD.
"User Access Researcher": Write drafts on feasibility of KYC and user access levels.
"Lit Review Researcher(s)": Reading recent relevant literature on high-assurance methods for ML.
"Proof of Concept Researcher": build a proof of concept. Should have knowledge of OpenAI and interfacing with/architecting APIs.

2. Luddite Pro: information for the refined luddite

Project Lead: Brian Penny

Goal: Develop a news website filled with stories, information, and resources related to the development of artificial intelligence in society. Cover specific stories related to the industry and of widespread interest (e.g: Adobe’s Firefly payouts, start of the Midjourney, proliferation of undress and deepfake apps). Provide valuable resources (e.g: list of experts on AI, book lists, and pre-made letters/comments to USCO and&...

Project Based Learning