The suggestion was to consider all companies currently looking to hire—because that function entails advertising and advertising is by its nature is difficult to hide from people like you trying to learn more about the company. (More precisely, the function (hiring) does not strictly entail advertising, but refraining from advertising will greatly slow down the execution of the function.)
Because AI companies are in an adversarial relationship with us (the people who understand that AI research is very dangerous), we should expect them to gather information about us and to try to prevent us from gathering accurate information about them.
It is possible that there currently exists a significantly-sized AI company that you and I know nothing about and cannot hope to learn anything about except by laborious efforts such as having face-to-face conversations with hundreds of AI experts located in diverse locations around the world (if they chose not to advertise to speed up hiring).
We cannot select all companies currently looking to hire AI researchers. There’s just too many of them, and most will just want to integrate ChatGPT into their software or something. We’re interested in companies making the kind of capabilities research that might lead to AI that poses an existential risk.
Do you suggest that we should consider all companies that employ a certain number of AI experts?
The suggestion was to consider all companies currently looking to hire—because that function entails advertising and advertising is by its nature is difficult to hide from people like you trying to learn more about the company. (More precisely, the function (hiring) does not strictly entail advertising, but refraining from advertising will greatly slow down the execution of the function.)
Because AI companies are in an adversarial relationship with us (the people who understand that AI research is very dangerous), we should expect them to gather information about us and to try to prevent us from gathering accurate information about them.
It is possible that there currently exists a significantly-sized AI company that you and I know nothing about and cannot hope to learn anything about except by laborious efforts such as having face-to-face conversations with hundreds of AI experts located in diverse locations around the world (if they chose not to advertise to speed up hiring).
We cannot select all companies currently looking to hire AI researchers. There’s just too many of them, and most will just want to integrate ChatGPT into their software or something.
We’re interested in companies making the kind of capabilities research that might lead to AI that poses an existential risk.