IMO the proportion of effort into AI alignment research scales with total AI investment. Lots of AI labs themselves do alignment research and open source/release research on the matter.
OpenAI at least ostensibly has a mission. If OpenAI didn’t make the moves they did, Google would have their spot, and Google is closer to the “evil self-serving corporation” archetype than OpenAI
IMO the proportion of effort into AI alignment research scales with total AI investment. Lots of AI labs themselves do alignment research and open source/release research on the matter.
OpenAI at least ostensibly has a mission. If OpenAI didn’t make the moves they did, Google would have their spot, and Google is closer to the “evil self-serving corporation” archetype than OpenAI