Btw, I’m open to the possibility that the answer is “yes, but it will accelerate alignment techniques more than capabilities, so it’s still good to do.”
(Note, though, not all acceleration of deployment is bad. Imagine that we manage to secure against the period of peril, where fully general capabilities have been pretty much found but aren’t being deployed because the discoverers are too responsible to do it without a convincing alignment solution. That’s a case where alignment work itself accelerates the deployment of AGI, but the acceleration is purely good.)
Btw, I’m open to the possibility that the answer is “yes, but it will accelerate alignment techniques more than capabilities, so it’s still good to do.”
(Note, though, not all acceleration of deployment is bad. Imagine that we manage to secure against the period of peril, where fully general capabilities have been pretty much found but aren’t being deployed because the discoverers are too responsible to do it without a convincing alignment solution. That’s a case where alignment work itself accelerates the deployment of AGI, but the acceleration is purely good.)