Short Answer: Not if the company could plausibly be funding constrained.
Long Answer: Investing in AI companies, by default, gives them more funding and more ambition, and thus accelerates AI. That’s bad, and a good reason not to invest in them. Any AI company that is a good investment and maximizing profits is not something to be encouraged. If you were purely profit maximizing and were dismissive of the risks from AI, that would be different, but these questions assume a different perspective. The exception is that the Big Tech companies (Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, although importantly not Facebook, seriously f*** Facebook) have essentially unlimited cash, and their funding situation changes little (if at all) based on their stock price.
The post was published on 1 March 2023, but it seems like the entire tech sector has been more cash constrained recently, what with the industry-wide layoffs.
I think this question is worth discussing, but I downvoted your comment for suggesting that my post does not belong on the EA Forum.
I believe this section of this post by Zvi addresses your concern about this:
The post was published on 1 March 2023, but it seems like the entire tech sector has been more cash constrained recently, what with the industry-wide layoffs.
I think this question is worth discussing, but I downvoted your comment for suggesting that my post does not belong on the EA Forum.