The claim: Working at a scaling lab is the best way to gain expertise in machine learning [which can then be leveraged into solving the alignment problem].
Coincidentally, earlier today I was listening to an interview with Zvi in which he said:
If you think there is a group of let’s say 2,000 people in the world, and they are the people who are primarily tasked with actively working to destroy it: they are working at the most destructive job per unit of effort that you could possibly have. I am saying get your career capital not as one of those 2,000 people. That’s a very, very small ask. I am not putting that big a burden on you here, right? It seems like that is the least you could possibly ask for in the sense of not being the baddies.
(Zvi was talking specifically about working on capabilities at a frontier lab, not on alignment.)
Coincidentally, earlier today I was listening to an interview with Zvi in which he said:
(Zvi was talking specifically about working on capabilities at a frontier lab, not on alignment.)