Shutting down one of these companies might cost, say, a trillion dollars and lost investor/employee value. And I think that the real risky ‘frontier AI’ might only be a portion of their work.
I could very much see an argument for them to stop a lot of the key frontier work and then move to more conservative engineering efforts, for instance. I think that there’s a large variety of space to do around AI development and AI safety, it seems easy for me to imagine large changes in direction that could still have some market value but much less risks.
This seems like an very coarse take to me.
Shutting down one of these companies might cost, say, a trillion dollars and lost investor/employee value. And I think that the real risky ‘frontier AI’ might only be a portion of their work.
I could very much see an argument for them to stop a lot of the key frontier work and then move to more conservative engineering efforts, for instance. I think that there’s a large variety of space to do around AI development and AI safety, it seems easy for me to imagine large changes in direction that could still have some market value but much less risks.