As an EA who is profoundly disappointed at the level of Bay Area EA collaboration with the labs, I must agree. As a technical researcher, I work with them when it improves safety, but I’m a big proponent of Dan Hendrycks when he says that regulation shouldn’t be pleasing for companies since they are the antagonists to any regulation in this field.
And every time I meet policy professionals in the field, they are infinitely scared to ever say extinction risk, pause, or anything like this (happy to hear retorts to this from other insiders), which is incredibly critical. In that sense, it becomes a power-seeking move, but once you are in power, if you’ve never had an opinion on your way to the top, no one will listen to you.
Very relevant to mention that there are definitely some EAs that are honest and pragmatic, but it’s too rare.
Looking forward to be proven wrong but this seems like a profoundly misguided strategy.
As an EA who is profoundly disappointed at the level of Bay Area EA collaboration with the labs, I must agree. As a technical researcher, I work with them when it improves safety, but I’m a big proponent of Dan Hendrycks when he says that regulation shouldn’t be pleasing for companies since they are the antagonists to any regulation in this field.
And every time I meet policy professionals in the field, they are infinitely scared to ever say extinction risk, pause, or anything like this (happy to hear retorts to this from other insiders), which is incredibly critical. In that sense, it becomes a power-seeking move, but once you are in power, if you’ve never had an opinion on your way to the top, no one will listen to you.
Very relevant to mention that there are definitely some EAs that are honest and pragmatic, but it’s too rare.
Looking forward to be proven wrong but this seems like a profoundly misguided strategy.