A single data point: At a party at EAG, I met a developer who worked at Anthropic. I asked for his p(DOOM), and he said 50%. He told me he was working on AI capability.
I inquired politely about his views on AI safety, and he frankly did not seem to have given the subject much thought. I do not recall making any joke about “selling out”, but I may have asked what effect he thought his actions would have on X-risk.
I don’t recall anyone listening, so this was probably not the situation OP is referring to.
A single data point: At a party at EAG, I met a developer who worked at Anthropic. I asked for his p(DOOM), and he said 50%. He told me he was working on AI capability.
I inquired politely about his views on AI safety, and he frankly did not seem to have given the subject much thought. I do not recall making any joke about “selling out”, but I may have asked what effect he thought his actions would have on X-risk.
I don’t recall anyone listening, so this was probably not the situation OP is referring to.
It wasn’t 🙂