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ThaoOnEarth🔹

Computer Science & Math Student @ Berea College
0 karmaJoined Pursuing an undergraduate degreeUnited States
Interests:
AI safetyAI alignmentNear-term AI ethicsAI governance

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doing various stuff, mostly reasoning. uncertainty-oriented, taking wide action space & weird ideas seriously.

How others can help me

- mentoring opportunities for undergrad students doing AI safety research 

- advice on how to move forward with my technical AI safety research ideas (my most challenging Hamming problem) 

- how to form my independent perspective on AI safety? 

- advice for a new AI safety student organization field builder?

How I can help others

- doing AI safety research as an undergraduate student (as an AAAI-UC'25 scholar) 

- general takes on AI safety 

- studying/living in the US as a foreigner (got a full-ride to study in the US, constantly moving places) 

- politics (happy to chat about the election & provide support if you need some mental clarity)

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Open Philanthropy Technical AI Safety RFP - $40M Available Across 21 Research Areas
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I'm new to applying for an AIS grant, so I have some common questions that might have been answered elsewhere:

(1) what are some failure modes that I might need to consider when writing a proposal, specifically for a research project?

(2) will research expenses include stipends for the researchers?

(3) can I write a grant to do a research project with my university AI safety group? I'm not sure if this will be considered a field-building or a technical AI safety grant.

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Numerical Breakdown of 47 1-on-1s as an EAG First-Timer (Going All Out Strategy)
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My first EAG is coming up within the next 10 days. Thank you for many helpful advice that encouraged me to go all out for my first EAG as well. This will for sure be a great test for my upper bound limits! 

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