Ryan Greenblatt on AI Acceleration of Software R&D

Ryan Greenblatt, Chief Scientist at Redwood Research focused on AI safety, posted that downstream of AI, strong acceleration is likely in publicly salient software R&D tasks easy to hill climb on, with clear metrics and short feedback loops. He described software R&D broadly to include all R&D doable purely in software, such as math and various solvers or optimization problems. Greenblatt indicated this development merits tracking.