Careers in AI Trust and Safety

End-of-lesson check

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1. Which is true about T&S team size at major AI labs?

   1. Always one person
   2. Often larger than most startups
   3. Always zero
   4. Banned in most labs

2. What kinds of backgrounds are sought beyond CS?

   1. Only PhDs in physics
   2. Only ex-athletes
   3. Sociologists, lawyers, linguists, and people with lived experience of online harm
   4. Only musicians

3. What does an AI red teamer do?

   1. Paints models red
   2. Sells subscriptions
   3. Coaches sports
   4. Tries to make models say or do harmful things to find weaknesses

4. What does a policy specialist do at an AI lab?

   1. Writes the rules guiding what models will and won't do
   2. Negotiates trade deals
   3. Files patents
   4. Designs logos

5. What does a child safety researcher focus on?

   1. Marketing
   2. Protecting kids from emerging AI threats specifically
   3. Logistics
   4. Office furniture

6. What does crisis response handle?

   1. Birthday parties
   2. Office maintenance
   3. Real-time incidents when AI causes harm in the wild
   4. Travel booking

7. What's a useful starter step for a curious teen?

   1. Apply to be CEO
   2. Buy stocks
   3. Memorize the model weights
   4. Read one AI lab's safety blog and notice recurring job titles

8. What's the formula 'pair what makes you angry about the internet with one technical skill'?

   1. A motivation-plus-skill recipe for finding T&S work
   2. A legal requirement
   3. A hiring guarantee
   4. A salary formula

9. Why is T&S 'one of the fastest-growing AI specialties'?

   1. T&S is shrinking
   2. Risk grows as products grow; teams must too
   3. Risk decreased
   4. Teams are staying flat

10. Which is NOT a typical T&S role mentioned?

    1. Red teamer
    2. Policy specialist
    3. Race car driver
    4. Crisis responder

11. What kind of skill makes lived experience of online harm valuable?

    1. Coding speed
    2. Typing speed
    3. Drawing speed
    4. Insight into harms that catalog-based teams miss

12. What is the cardinal value of a T&S role?

    1. Keeping AI from harming users
    2. Maximizing profit
    3. Deleting features
    4. Hiding bugs

13. Why don't you need a CS PhD?

    1. CS is illegal
    2. The role mix includes humanistic and policy expertise
    3. PhDs are banned
    4. Only PhDs help

14. Which mindset best fits a teen interested in T&S?

    1. Pick a flashy title and wait
    2. Ignore harms
    3. Care about a real harm + acquire one technical skill + apply
    4. Avoid technology

15. What's a clear sign T&S is hiring at a lab?

    1. Random job listings
    2. No signs anywhere
    3. Only word-of-mouth
    4. Recurring T&S job titles in team bios on the lab's safety blog