“From people who want to slow down AI development”
The framing here could be tighter. It’s more about wanting to be able to understand AI capability trends better without accidentally causing capability externalities.
Yes I think that is better than what I said, both because it’s more accurate, and because it’s more clear that Matthew did in fact use his knowledge of capability trends to decide that he could profit from starting an AI company.
Like, I don’t know what exactly went into his decision, but I would be surprised if that knowledge didn’t play a role.
Arguably that’s less on Matthew and more on the founders of Epoch for either misrepresenting themselves or having a bad hiring filter. Probably the former—if I’m not mistaken, Tamay Besiroglu co-founded Epoch and is now co-founding Mechanize, so I would say Tamay behaved badly here but I’m not sure whether Matthew did.
“From people who want to slow down AI development”
The framing here could be tighter. It’s more about wanting to be able to understand AI capability trends better without accidentally causing capability externalities.
Yes I think that is better than what I said, both because it’s more accurate, and because it’s more clear that Matthew did in fact use his knowledge of capability trends to decide that he could profit from starting an AI company.
Like, I don’t know what exactly went into his decision, but I would be surprised if that knowledge didn’t play a role.
Arguably that’s less on Matthew and more on the founders of Epoch for either misrepresenting themselves or having a bad hiring filter. Probably the former—if I’m not mistaken, Tamay Besiroglu co-founded Epoch and is now co-founding Mechanize, so I would say Tamay behaved badly here but I’m not sure whether Matthew did.