Ryan Kidd

So our first three-month program, 7% get in, 75% go on for another six months.

Maybe even 12 months in some cases.

And that extension phase is where a lot of great follow-up research happens.

And of the people who've done our program over history, we've had 446 fellows in total, not including people who've done training programs that we've helped facilitate, of which there are probably another like 200, 300.

Of those 446, 80% have gone on to get permanent jobs in AI safety based on our latest statistics.

So that's great.

I think, yeah, like I think 98% are employed in some capacity.

Now those 80%, not all are like W2s, right?

Some of them are independent researchers with grant funding from coefficient giving or LTF or something, which I think is like a fine situation, right?

And then in terms of like the actual field growth, there's some statistics I can share.

So it seems like based on Stephen McAleese's less wrong investigation,

that something like the growth rate of the AI safety field is extra 25% per year.

Which is kind of interesting, right?

It does seem to be growing exponentially, as far as we can tell.

Now, that is a lot less than the growth rate of MATS applications, which are going up somewhere between 1.4 to 1.7x per year, depending upon how you slice it.

And mentor applications might be increasing around 1.5x per year,

So there's a big disconnect.

And according to Blue Dot Impact, I believe that their growth rate is something like 370% per year in terms of applications to their programs.

So there's like, yeah, some large disconnect.

So a lot of people are applying to Blue Dot.