Fund experts, capacity building opportunities, and operational costs to increase the offer of courses and degrees focused on AI, AI Safety, LLMs, and Cybersecurity in Cameroon's Universities.
Fund experts, capacity building opportunities, and operational costs to increase the offer of courses and degrees focused on AI, AI Safety, LLMs, and Cybersecurity in Cameroon's Universities.
National AI-literacy and Cybersecurity infrastructure is crucial to prevent abuse against state institutions and citizens. This project will help existing higher education institutions in Cameroon currently offering Computer Engineering courses to develop courses and degrees on machine learning, AI, AI Safety, and Cybersecurity. I will map the current offer of computer engineering in Cameroon and help the different universities to build it further and include AI Safety components, possibly connecting them with AI Safety global opportunities, and local and international expertise to make it happen.
It builds the global talent pipeline dedicated to X-risk from AI from a place where it is unlikely professionals would have appeared without directed support.
The project will build capacities in Cameroon to respond to localized AI risks, and even to eventually contribute to global AI/Safeguarding research. A future where states and people are at the mercy of constant AI-powered attacks is probably one where Cameroon will be left out and vulnerable, in its worst form the country devolving into anarchy, irrelevance, and even disappearing as a functional state.
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Email hi@grantmaking.ai to get verifiedIn 2023 an EA group (EA Buea) created an association (Effective Help) dedicated to neglected and cost-effective actions from the Cameroonian perspective. This organization has implemented +50 cost-effectiveness analysis, raises funds for small effective projects, and conducts evaluations and mapping consultancies for donors. The organization intends to implement projects directly if no other actor is taking up the task, AI Safety is one of those cases. Using this umbrella organization can facilitate institutional relationships, public partnerships, and administrative processes.
Much of the costing remains uncertain, we have to see what can be done and understand costs and salary scales better to develop it further. However an important part of the grant (30,000$) is compensation for myself. I will leave my current job if this grant is awarded and I would have made more in this period if I continue employed.
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