I would be very cautious with making any (hard to reverse) career decisions dependent on the Anthropic IPO.
Reminds me of the FTX Future Fund situation—suddenly there was twice (?) as much AI safety funding available, many people quit their (E2G) job to start a new AI safety org, and then a few months later, the funds disappeared, and we were back to pre-FTX funding levels but now with many more people in direct AIS work, leading to a much higher funding bar than before. (This is of course different, Anthropic is not FTX)
It’s hard to estimate how many people back then took costly, hard to reverse career decisions that seemd worthwhile in expectation, but regrettable without FTX funds—maybe 100s?
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I would be very cautious with making any (hard to reverse) career decisions dependent on the Anthropic IPO.
Reminds me of the FTX Future Fund situation—suddenly there was twice (?) as much AI safety funding available, many people quit their (E2G) job to start a new AI safety org, and then a few months later, the funds disappeared, and we were back to pre-FTX funding levels but now with many more people in direct AIS work, leading to a much higher funding bar than before. (This is of course different, Anthropic is not FTX)
It’s hard to estimate how many people back then took costly, hard to reverse career decisions that seemd worthwhile in expectation, but regrettable without FTX funds—maybe 100s?