I haven’t thought about this a lot, but I don’t see big tech companies working with existing frontier AI players as necessarily a bad thing for race dynamics (compared to the counterfactual). It seems better than them funding or poaching talent to create a viable competitor that may not care as much about risk—I’d guess the question is how likely we’d expect them to be successful in doing so (given that Amazon is not exactly at the frontier now)?
I haven’t thought about this a lot, but I don’t see big tech companies working with existing frontier AI players as necessarily a bad thing for race dynamics (compared to the counterfactual). It seems better than them funding or poaching talent to create a viable competitor that may not care as much about risk—I’d guess the question is how likely we’d expect them to be successful in doing so (given that Amazon is not exactly at the frontier now)?