Conor Barnes comments on 80,000 hours should remove OpenAI from the Job Board (and similar EA orgs should do similarly)

[Conor Barnes]

Update: We’ve changed the language in our top-level disclaimers: example. Thanks again for flagging! We’re now thinking about how to best minimize the possibility of implying endorsement.

[Raemon]

Following up my other comment:

To try to be a bit more helpful rather than just complaining and arguing: when I model your current worldview, and try to imagine a disclaimer that helps a bit more with my concerns but seems like it might work for you given your current views, here’s a stab. Changes bolded.

OpenAI is a frontier AI research and product company, with teams working on alignment, policy, and security. We recommend specific opportunities at OpenAI that we think may be high impact. We recommend applicants pay attention to the details of individual roles at OpenAI, and form their own judgment about whether the role is net positive. We do not necessarily recommend working at other positions at OpenAI

You can read considerations around working at a frontier AI company in our career review on the topic.

(it’s not my main crux, by “frontier” felt both like a more up-to-date term for what OpenAI does, and also feels more specifically like it’s making a claim about the product than generally awarding status to the company the way “leading” does)

[Raemon]

Thanks. This still seems pretty insufficient to me, but, it’s at least an improvement and I appreciate you making some changes here.

[Linda Linsefors]

I can’t find the disclaimer. Not saying it isn’t there. But it should be obvious from just skimming the page, since that is what most people will do.