The pressure here looks more like “I want to produce work that the people around me are excited about, and the kind of thing they are most excited about is stuff that is pretty directly connected to improving capabilities”, whereby I include “getting AIs to perform a wider range of economically useful tasks” as “improving capabilities”.
I definitely don’t think this is the only pressure the team is under! There are lots of pressures that are acting on them, and my current guess is that it’s not the primary pressure, but I would be surprised if it isn’t quite substantial.
The pressure here looks more like “I want to produce work that the people around me are excited about, and the kind of thing they are most excited about is stuff that is pretty directly connected to improving capabilities”, whereby I include “getting AIs to perform a wider range of economically useful tasks” as “improving capabilities”.
I definitely don’t think this is the only pressure the team is under! There are lots of pressures that are acting on them, and my current guess is that it’s not the primary pressure, but I would be surprised if it isn’t quite substantial.