“AI Safety Field Growth Analysis 2025” by Stephen McAleese

Summary The goal of this post is to analyze the growth of the technical and non-technical AI safety fields in terms of the number of organizations and number of FTEs working in these fields. In 2022, I estimated that there were about 300 FTEs (full-time equivalents) working in the field of technical AI safety research and 100 on non-technical AI safety work (400 in total). Based on updated data and estimates from 2025, I estimate that there are now approximately 600 FTEs working on technical AI safety and 500 FTEs working on non-technical AI safety (1100 in total). Note that this post is an updated version of my old 2022 post Estimating the Current and Future Number of AI Safety Researchers.Technical AI safety field growth analysis The first step for analyzing the growth of the technical AI safety field is to create a spreadsheet listing the names of [...] ---Outline:(00:11) Summary(01:00) Technical AI safety field growth analysis(03:57) Non-technical AI safety field growth analysis(05:50) Acknowledgements(06:01) Appendix(06:20) Old and new dataset and model comparison(07:05) Technical AI safety organizations table(07:24) Non-technical AI safety organizations table--- First published: September 27th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/7YDyziQxkWxbGmF3u/ai-safety-field-growth-analysis-2025 --- 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.

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