• Commitments to AI safety from countries, AI scientists, and others, a TED talk about the dangers of competition in AI, and other AI news (see below)
• A new analysis concludes that policy changes are surprisingly persistent
• Podcasts discuss the fact that indoor and outdoor air pollution is responsible for ~12% of deaths and what we can do about the issue, how biological labs have jeopardized public health, and more

How long do policy changes matter?

News on AI safety and AI governance

Air pollution is responsible for ~12% of deaths — how can we get that number down?

In other news

• Giving Season has started! 
  • Animal Charity Evaluators have announced the animal welfare charities they recommend donating to in 2023. 
  • Charities share what they would do with extra funding. 
  • A long-time donor answers questions about earning to give. 
• AI safety (see a roundup of news above)
  • Liv Boeree talks about the dark side of competition in AI in a recent TED talk. 
  • In TIME (paywalled), Yoshua Bengio and Daniel Privitera outline policy goals that could help achieve AI progress, safety, and democratic participation.
  • AI safety researcher Paul Christiano discusses responsible scaling policies and more on the Dwarkesh Podcast.
• Other
  • Millions of farmed birds are being killed in an extremely inhumane way after a flu outbreak in the US.
  • Investigative journalist Alison Young discusses how top labs have jeopardized public health with repeated biosafety failures on a podcast. See also episodes on cash transfers and economic growth and historical perspectives on an intelligence explosion. 
  • Rethink Priorities has published a series of reports on cause prioritization and uncertainty, including thinking through different types of risk aversion, a cross-cause cost-effectiveness model, and more. 
  • Chlorinating water can lead to a 30% reduction in child mortality, and we don’t know why.
  • The world doesn’t agree on what a “humanely raised fish” is. Changing that could affect billions of aquatic animals. 
  • Alvea, a company aiming to speed up vaccine development, has wound down. An unofficial post shares some reflections. 

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• The 80,000 Hours Job Board features more than 800 positions. We can’t fit them all in the newsletter, so you can check them out there.
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• Probably Good maintains a list of impact-focused job boards. 

Featured jobs

• Campaign Manager and Corporate Relations Manager for the broiler chicken team (UK/remote, £36.9K, apply by 30 November)

• Research Engineer for Interpretability and Responsible Scaling Policy Evaluations (Hybrid in SF/London, $280K - $520K)
• Research Scientist for Frontier Red Team and Societal Impacts (Hybrid in SF/London, $250K - $450K)

• AI Safety Course Designer (Technical) (London, £55K - £80K, apply by 28 November)
• AI Safety Course Designer (Policy) (London, £55K - £80K, apply by 12 December)
• AI Safety Community Manager (London, £45K -70K, apply by 5 December)

• Intern (Summer 2024) (Remote, $15/hr with hours negotiable, apply by 10 December)

• Founder Search and Recruitment Lead (Hybrid/SF Bay Area preferred, $100K - $100K+)
• Researcher, General and Specializing in AI Safety (Hybrid in SF Bay Area)

• Postdoctoral and Senior Research Fellows in Economics (Oxford, UK, £36.6K - £61.1K, apply by 22 November)
• Assistant Director (Economics) (Oxford, UK, £52,815-£61,198, apply by 22 November)

• Policy Advisor to the OECD on Global Risks (Oxford/remote, £60,000 - £70,000, apply by 12 December)

• Various positions across Open Philanthropy’s teams focused on Global Catastrophic Risk (salaries and locations vary; you can apply to any number of these positions using a single form) (apply by 27 November)

Fellowships

• The Center on Long-Term Risk will be running its second-ever Intro Fellowship on risks of astronomical suffering (s-risks), intended for effective altruists to learn more about which s-risks we consider most important and how to reduce them. Apply by 7 December.
• RAND’s Technology and Security Policy Fellows Fellowship mentors fellows who pursue research on an area of technology and security policy. Apply here.
• See more opportunities here. 

AI-specific opportunities

• The AI Alignment Research Engineer Accelerator (ARENA) is a 4-week (full-time) ML bootcamp with a focus on AI safety running 8 January - 2 February. Apply by 27 November. 
• The AI Safety Fundamentals Alignment Course is a 12-week, free, virtual program for those with a technical background or early in their career and interested in alignment. Apply by 10 January. 
• The Athena Mentorship Program is a 2-month program for women and people of marginalized genders in AI alignment to strengthen their research skills and network. Apply by 3 December. 

Giving season (where should we donate?)