No, I do not expect the people who replace them (or them not being replaced) to have much of an effect. I do not think they are really helping and I don’t think their absence would really hurt. The companies are following their own agenda and they’ll do that with or without specifc people in those roles.
I think Holly’s claim is that these people aren’t really helping from an ‘influencing the company to be more safety conscious’ perspective, or a ‘solving the hard parts of the alignment problem’ perspective. They could still be helping the company build commercially lucrative AI.
No, I do not expect the people who replace them (or them not being replaced) to have much of an effect. I do not think they are really helping and I don’t think their absence would really hurt. The companies are following their own agenda and they’ll do that with or without specifc people in those roles.
If these people weren’t really helping the companies it seems surprising salaries are so high?
I think Holly’s claim is that these people aren’t really helping from an ‘influencing the company to be more safety conscious’ perspective, or a ‘solving the hard parts of the alignment problem’ perspective. They could still be helping the company build commercially lucrative AI.