Neel—am I incorrect that Anthropic and DeepMind are still pursuing AGI, despite AI safety and alignment research still lagging far behind AI capabilities research? If they are still pursuing AGI, rather than pausing AGI research, they are no more ethical than OpenAI, in my opinion.
The OpenAI debacles and scandals help illuminate some of the commercial incentives, personal egos, and systemic hubris that sacrifices safety for speed in the AI industry. But there’s no reason to think those issues are unique to OpenAI.
If Anthropic came out tomorrow and said, ‘OK, everyone, this AGI stuff is way too dangerous to pursue at the moment; we’re shutting down capabilities research for a decade until AI safety can start to catch up’, then they would have my respect.
Neel—am I incorrect that Anthropic and DeepMind are still pursuing AGI, despite AI safety and alignment research still lagging far behind AI capabilities research? If they are still pursuing AGI, rather than pausing AGI research, they are no more ethical than OpenAI, in my opinion.
The OpenAI debacles and scandals help illuminate some of the commercial incentives, personal egos, and systemic hubris that sacrifices safety for speed in the AI industry. But there’s no reason to think those issues are unique to OpenAI.
If Anthropic came out tomorrow and said, ‘OK, everyone, this AGI stuff is way too dangerous to pursue at the moment; we’re shutting down capabilities research for a decade until AI safety can start to catch up’, then they would have my respect.