Tag: career
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Moving to San Francisco for the Sentient Futures Residency
I spent three months this year on the Sentient Futures Residency, where I got to know the AIxAnimals field, meet animal welfare practitioners, and immerse myself in the AI safety scene in San Francisco. It was my first time living in America. I took on three projects: There were around 12 other residents from varied…
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Fit Testing AI Benchmarking
In February I got in touch with CaML as part of the AIxAnimals incubator, run by Sentient Futures. They tasked me with putting MORU Bench (Moral Reasoning Under Uncertainty) up on Inspect a benchmarking service run by the UK’s AI Security Institute. My PR was accepted and completed the project within three weeks. It was…
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Three Weeks at the EA Hotel, Blackpool
In January I spent three weeks at the EA Hotel in Blackpool. It was a really good experience overall. Blackpool itself was nicer than its reputation suggests. I enjoyed walking around during the day and it has a pretty nice city center with lots of cafes, shops and restaurants. Living with twenty other people turned…
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Fit-testing Technical Animal Welfare Careers
I skipped my bi-monthly update for December and January, so this is me catching up. Going forward I’ll write these after completing a fit test rather than on a schedule. December I mostly took off for Christmas, but I managed to fit in three things: AI x Animals Course More technical than I expected, which…
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Deciding what projects to take on
Unless you have something specific in mind planning a career switch can be daunting. What is feasible, where can I get training or experience, what should I prioritise when overloaded with. When trying to decide what to work on during my career switch break I try to use a weighted factor model. This consists of…
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Changing Career – Preparation
I recently left my job with the intention to change career at the ripe age of 36. I’ve been an iOS developer for 12 years and a professional poker player for the 6 years before that. iOS development gave me almost everything I wanted. A career I enjoyed, was good at, paid well, could work…