In AI safety adoption is also a reason. I expect labs to adopt stuff that they pay for, whereas research / open source public goods they’d be like “oh that’s cool” then never use it.
Fwiw, I am a fan of open-source public goods. I think more nonprofits should try to build products rather than papers (or at least be in that mindset). I am a little worried that doing research is just more accepted than producing products that people might use and that creates unhelpful barriers. Relatedly, I quite like the move towards essay websites more care goes towards thinking about the UX and trying to actually interact with users.
In AI safety adoption is also a reason. I expect labs to adopt stuff that they pay for, whereas research / open source public goods they’d be like “oh that’s cool” then never use it.
Fwiw, I am a fan of open-source public goods. I think more nonprofits should try to build products rather than papers (or at least be in that mindset). I am a little worried that doing research is just more accepted than producing products that people might use and that creates unhelpful barriers. Relatedly, I quite like the move towards essay websites more care goes towards thinking about the UX and trying to actually interact with users.