At the time of this post, the FLI letter has been signed by 1 OpenAI research scientist, 7 DeepMind research scientists/engineers, and 0 Anthropic employees.
“1 OpenAI research scientist” felt weird to me on priors. 0 makes sense, if the company gave some guidance (e.g. legal) to not sign, or if the unanimous opinion was that it’s a bad idea to sign. 7 makes sense too—it’s about what I’d expect from DeepMind and shows that there’s a small contingent of people really worried about risk. Exactly 1 is really weird—there are definitely multiple risk conscious people at OpenAI, but exactly one of them decided to sign?
I see a “Yonas Kassa” listed as an OpenAI research scientist, but it’s very unclear who this person is. I don’t see any LinkedIn or Google Scholar profile of this name associated with OpenAI. Previously, I know many of the signatures were inaccurate, so I wonder if this one is, too?
Anyway, my guess is that actually zero OpenAI researchers, and that both OpenAI and Anthropic employees have decided (as a collective? because of a top down directive? for legal reasons? I have no idea) to not sign.
“1 OpenAI research scientist” felt weird to me on priors. 0 makes sense, if the company gave some guidance (e.g. legal) to not sign, or if the unanimous opinion was that it’s a bad idea to sign. 7 makes sense too—it’s about what I’d expect from DeepMind and shows that there’s a small contingent of people really worried about risk. Exactly 1 is really weird—there are definitely multiple risk conscious people at OpenAI, but exactly one of them decided to sign?
I see a “Yonas Kassa” listed as an OpenAI research scientist, but it’s very unclear who this person is. I don’t see any LinkedIn or Google Scholar profile of this name associated with OpenAI. Previously, I know many of the signatures were inaccurate, so I wonder if this one is, too?
Anyway, my guess is that actually zero OpenAI researchers, and that both OpenAI and Anthropic employees have decided (as a collective? because of a top down directive? for legal reasons? I have no idea) to not sign.
There are actually 3 signatories now claiming to work for for OpenAI.