I'm Buck Shlegeris, I do research and outreach at MIRI, AMA — EA Forum
EDIT: I'm only going to answer a few more questions, due to time constraints. I might eventually come back and answer more. I still appreciate getting replies with people's thoughts on things I've written. I'm going to do an AMA on Tuesday next week (November 19th). Below I've written a brief description of what I'm doing at the moment. Ask any questions you like; I'll respond to as many as I can on Tuesday. Although I'm eager to discuss MIRI-related things in this AMA, my replies will represent my own views rather than MIRI's, and as a rule I won't be running my answers by anyone else at MIRI. Think of it as a relatively candid and informal Q&A session, rather than anything polished or definitive. ---- I'm a researcher at MIRI. At MIRI I divide my time roughly equally between technical work and recruitment/outreach work. On the recruitment/outreach side, I do things like the following: - For the AI Risk for Computer Scientists workshops (which are slightly badly named; we accept s