Indirectly, because 90 papers seems like a tiny number, vs. what got published on arxiv during that same time interval. (Depending on how one counts) I wouldn’t be surprised if there were > 90 papers from outside the labs even looking only at the unlearning category.
Counting the number of papers isn’t going to be a good strategy.
I do think total research outside of labs looks competitive with research from labs and probably research done outside of labs has produced more differential safety progress in total.
I also think open weight models are probably good so far in terms of making AI more likely to go well (putting aside norms and precedents of releases), though I don’t think this is necessarily implied from “more research happens outside of labs”.
Indirectly, because 90 papers seems like a tiny number, vs. what got published on arxiv during that same time interval. (Depending on how one counts) I wouldn’t be surprised if there were > 90 papers from outside the labs even looking only at the unlearning category.
Counting the number of papers isn’t going to be a good strategy.
I do think total research outside of labs looks competitive with research from labs and probably research done outside of labs has produced more differential safety progress in total.
I also think open weight models are probably good so far in terms of making AI more likely to go well (putting aside norms and precedents of releases), though I don’t think this is necessarily implied from “more research happens outside of labs”.