Which technical AI safety fields are going to be automated first? (opens in new tab)

I’m transitioning into technical AI safety, and I find myself thinking a lot about what fields I want to research and where I’ll have the biggest impact. One thing I’ve found myself thinking about a lot recently is what fields are likely to be automated.This seems pretty likely since frontier labs will likely be automating capabilities research as a part of automated R and D, and safety research won’t be far off. Some initial examples of this are Anthropic is investigating , UKAISI recently e...