This is super helpful thank you—would be keen to speak to you some more about your time there, and your involvement with EA more generally/since. Would you be happy to have a chat?
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Both of these comments are somewhat true. My default position is definitely ‘they seem impactful to me’. It’s also a bit of ‘why aren’t companies like this talked about much within EA’. That said, the point of my post is to gain unbiased insight from the community, so it might be better posed as ‘is BenevolentAI (positively) impactful?’.
I suppose as I wrote the title, I was reading the acronym as ‘Effectively Altruistic’ and as an adjective, rather than questioning whether it ‘deserves a spot in the tribe’. Clearly ‘impactful’ would have been a better word than altruism given the nature of their profit making company.
I think their company name is eye catching enough to warrant its position as the first word on my first post’s title, so I think I’ll leave it there and chuck in ‘impactful’ for clarity.
Thanks :)
This seems fair. I think something I should have added to the post is that I think it would also help with my own career capital. To date I have not worked on any products using AI. I’m keen on moving into AI alignment in future, and feel that working in the space before advising on policy would be helpful. For various reasons the company is very suitable to my career trajectory at the moment, so I think it would stand me in good stead to learn while there, with an eye on the future.