I’m currently building the technical foundations needed to contribute to AI safety research as a Research Engineer.1
Building
- Learning the Inspect evaluation framework
- Reproducing existing AI safety evaluations
- Building my first model evaluation projects
- Publishing technical notes and project write-ups
Studying
- ARENA curriculum (self-study)
- 3Blue1Brown Deep Learning series
Reading
- AI 2027
- The Alignment Problem
- Papers on AI safety, evaluations, and interpretability
Next milestones
- Publish my first Inspect evaluation
- Publish my first paper reproduction
- Apply to the next ARENA cohort
Footnotes
This post is inspired by Derek Sivers’ Now Now Now project. ↩