Is this about the safety teams at capabilities labs?
If so, I consider it a non-obvious issue, whether pushing a talented people into an AI safety role at, e.g., DeepMind is a bad thing. If you think that is a bad thing, consider providing a more detailed argument, and writing a top-level post explaining your view.
If, instead, this is about EA institutions pushing people into capabilities roles, consider naming these concrete examples. As an example, 80k has a job advertising a role as a prompt engineer at Scale AI. That does not seem to be a very safety-focused role, and it is not clear how 80k wants to help prevent human extinction with that job ad.
Thanks for the comment :) I think expecting this detail is normal from someone on the EA Forum. If you think that’s the way public relations are going to work, which is my main point, then we’re disagreeing.
Is this about the safety teams at capabilities labs?
If so, I consider it a non-obvious issue, whether pushing a talented people into an AI safety role at, e.g., DeepMind is a bad thing. If you think that is a bad thing, consider providing a more detailed argument, and writing a top-level post explaining your view.
If, instead, this is about EA institutions pushing people into capabilities roles, consider naming these concrete examples. As an example, 80k has a job advertising a role as a prompt engineer at Scale AI. That does not seem to be a very safety-focused role, and it is not clear how 80k wants to help prevent human extinction with that job ad.
Thanks for the comment :) I think expecting this detail is normal from someone on the EA Forum. If you think that’s the way public relations are going to work, which is my main point, then we’re disagreeing.