What I learnt co-leading an AI Safety bootcamp for legal and governance practit ---- - 8 minutes ago | 4 points | 0 comments - URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KtAug62dYRgAS8sqJ/what-i-learnt-co-leading-an-ai-safety-bootcamp-for-legal-and - Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49955839 - Summary: The author co-led an AI Safety bootcamp for legal and governance practitioners in East Sussex, organized by ML4Good and EquiStamp. The five-day program brought together 19 senior legal, compliance, risk, and governance professionals from 12 jurisdictions, teaching them the technical aspects of frontier AI systems. Key insights from the experience: professionals with impressive backgrounds often feel intellectually isolated in their concerns about AI safety; practitioners are already reading AI safety research but struggle to interpret it; non-technical people responsible for technical consequences have a strong need to understand the technology; legal professionals deeply value technical safety expertise; market incentives and AI safety incentives are interconnected, with lawyers and governance professionals well-positioned to influence them; participants immediately applied what they learned, such as rejecting vendor safety claims and recruiting AI safety talent; and lawyers can be as passionate and "nerdy" about technical topics as STEM professionals. The author emphasizes the importance of building community for professionals working at the intersection of AI, law, and governance, and hopes to expand this approach to reach more practitioners who can influence AI safety through their professional roles.