[Linkpost] “Why I’m excited about AI safety talent development initiatives” by JulianHazell

This is a link post. Just a couple of weeks ago, I hit my two-year mark at Open Philanthropy. I’ve learned a lot over this period, but I’ve been especially surprised by how great the ROI is on AI safety talent development programs after digging into the numbers. Consider this graph: I’ve heard at least four examples in the last ~year or so of this dynamic playing out at AI safety organizations that run fellowship programs.1 This amount of applications isn’t the norm per se, but it happens often enough that we literally have an emoji in our Slack called :fellowship-growth: that we use to celebrate these cases. So yeah, now that I’ve seen how the sausage is made, I’m officially talent development pilled. A brief case for talent development Talent gaps are still very much a thing. Key institutions2 ruthlessly compete to hire from a small pool of [...] ---Outline:(01:06) A brief case for talent development(03:27) What to do about this--- First published: August 28th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/xWk7ruWrDjtdj6nqG/why-i-m-excited-about-ai-safety-talent-development Linkpost URL:https://thirdthing.ai/p/ai-safety-funders-love-this-one-secret --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.