{
  "title": "AI safety in the 2022 report",
  "report_year": 2022,
  "period": "Historical snapshot: October 2022. Dates and populations are specified per row.",
  "methodology": "The researcher estimate is not directly comparable with the narrower 2021 alignment count. Fine-tuning compute excludes the cost of pretraining, and improved instruction following does not establish comprehensive alignment.",
  "source_deck": "https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1WrkeJ9-CjuotTXoa4ZZlB3UPBXpxe4B3FMs9R9tn34I/edit?usp=sharing",
  "web_edition_date": "2026-10-11",
  "rows": [
    {
      "measure": "Full-time AI safety researchers",
      "value": "Approximately 300",
      "definition": "Estimate reported in 2022; scope differs from the 2021 selected-organization count.",
      "printed_slide": 98,
      "pdf_page": 98,
      "source_url": "https://www.stateof.ai/State-of-AI-Report-2022.pdf#page=98"
    },
    {
      "measure": "InstructGPT fine-tuning compute",
      "value": "Less than 2% of GPT-3 pretraining",
      "definition": "Relative compute figure reported for the fine-tuning stage.",
      "printed_slide": 100,
      "pdf_page": 100,
      "source_url": "https://www.stateof.ai/State-of-AI-Report-2022.pdf#page=100"
    },
    {
      "measure": "Human feedback effort",
      "value": "20,000 hours",
      "definition": "Effort reported alongside the InstructGPT discussion.",
      "printed_slide": 100,
      "pdf_page": 100,
      "source_url": "https://www.stateof.ai/State-of-AI-Report-2022.pdf#page=100"
    }
  ]
}