[People at AI labs] expected heavy scrutiny by leadership and communications teams on what they can state publicly. [...] One discussion with a person working at DeepMind is pending approval before publication. [...] We think organizations discouraging their employees from speaking openly about their views on AI risk is harmful, and we want to encourage more openness.
(I’m the person in question.)
I just want to note that in the case of DeepMind:
I don’t expect “heavy” scrutiny by leadership and communications teams (though it is not literally zero)
For the discussion with me, the ball is in the authors’ court: the transcript needs to be cleaned up more. I haven’t even sent it to the relevant people at DeepMind yet (and have said so to Andrea).
While DeepMind obviously cares about what I say, I think it is mostly inaccurate to say that DeepMind has discouraged me from speaking about my views on AI risk (as should be evident from my many comments on this forum).
(Nothing in the post contradicts what I’m saying here, but I’m worried that readers would get a mistaken impression from it.)
Just as a data point, the impression I got with respect to DeepMind was that they’d approved the conversation (contra some other orgs, for which the post said otherwise) and the review was in progress.
(I’m the person in question.)
I just want to note that in the case of DeepMind:
I don’t expect “heavy” scrutiny by leadership and communications teams (though it is not literally zero)
For the discussion with me, the ball is in the authors’ court: the transcript needs to be cleaned up more. I haven’t even sent it to the relevant people at DeepMind yet (and have said so to Andrea).
While DeepMind obviously cares about what I say, I think it is mostly inaccurate to say that DeepMind has discouraged me from speaking about my views on AI risk (as should be evident from my many comments on this forum).
(Nothing in the post contradicts what I’m saying here, but I’m worried that readers would get a mistaken impression from it.)
Just as a data point, the impression I got with respect to DeepMind was that they’d approved the conversation (contra some other orgs, for which the post said otherwise) and the review was in progress.