Idea: Red-teaming fellowships

Abstract

A red team is an independent group that challenges an organization or movement in order to improve it. Red teaming is the practice of using red teams. Participants get prepared for and work on a red-teaming challenge, focussed on specific arguments, ideas, cause areas or programmes of organizations.This will:i) Allow fellows to dig deeply into a topic of their interest, encourage critical thinking and reduce deferring to an “EA consensus”ii) Increase scrutiny of key EA ideas and lead to clarifying discussionsiii) Allow fellows to show useful research skills to potential employersFactors to make this succesful are a good selection process for fellows, well-informed EAs to supervise the fellowship and connection to EA research organizations. Edit: HT to Linch, who came up with the same idea in a shortform half a year ago and didn’t follow Aaron’s advice of turning it into a top-level post!.