Relatedly, I think that the “Should you work at a leading AI company?” article shouldn’t start with a pros and cons list which sort of buries the fact that you might contribute to building extremely dangerous AI.
I think “Risk of contributing to the development of harmful AI systems” should at least be at the top of the cons list. But overall this sort of reminds me of my favorite graphic from 80k:
?? It’s the second bullet point in the cons list, and reemphasized in the third bullet?
If you’re saying “obviously this is the key determinant of whether you should work at a leading AI company so there shouldn’t even be a pros / cons table”, then obviously 80K disagrees given they recommend some such roles (and many other people (e.g. me) also disagree so this isn’t 80K ignoring expert consensus). In that case I think you should try to convince 80K on the object level rather than applying political pressure.
This thread feels like a fine place for people to express their opinion as a stakeholder.
Like, I don’t even know how to engage with 80k staff on this on the object level, and seems like the first thing to do is to just express my opinion (and like, they can then choose to respond with argument).
Relatedly, I think that the “Should you work at a leading AI company?” article shouldn’t start with a pros and cons list which sort of buries the fact that you might contribute to building extremely dangerous AI.
I think “Risk of contributing to the development of harmful AI systems” should at least be at the top of the cons list. But overall this sort of reminds me of my favorite graphic from 80k:
?? It’s the second bullet point in the cons list, and reemphasized in the third bullet?
If you’re saying “obviously this is the key determinant of whether you should work at a leading AI company so there shouldn’t even be a pros / cons table”, then obviously 80K disagrees given they recommend some such roles (and many other people (e.g. me) also disagree so this isn’t 80K ignoring expert consensus). In that case I think you should try to convince 80K on the object level rather than applying political pressure.
This thread feels like a fine place for people to express their opinion as a stakeholder.
Like, I don’t even know how to engage with 80k staff on this on the object level, and seems like the first thing to do is to just express my opinion (and like, they can then choose to respond with argument).