Meta is paying billions of dollars to recruit people with proven experience at developing relevant AI models.
Does the set of “people with proven experience in building AI models” overlap with “people who defer to Eliezer on whether AI is safe” at all? I doubt it.
Indeed given that Yudkowsky’s arguments on AI are not universally admired and people who have chosen building the thing he says will make everybody die as their career are particularly likely to be sceptical about his convictions on that issue, an endorsement might even be net negative.
Meta is paying billions of dollars to recruit people with proven experience at developing relevant AI models.
Does the set of “people with proven experience in building AI models” overlap with “people who defer to Eliezer on whether AI is safe” at all? I doubt it.
Indeed given that Yudkowsky’s arguments on AI are not universally admired and people who have chosen building the thing he says will make everybody die as their career are particularly likely to be sceptical about his convictions on that issue, an endorsement might even be net negative.