my view is that approaches within google, such as AWU, are useful brakes on the terribleness but not likely to have enough impact to offset how fast google is getting ahead in capabilities. I’d personally suggest that even starting your own capabilities lab is more useful for safety than joining google—capabilities mixed with safety is what eg anthropic are doing (according to me. maybe anthropic doesn’t see their work as advancing capability).
potentially relevant: https://alphabetworkersunion.org/
my view is that approaches within google, such as AWU, are useful brakes on the terribleness but not likely to have enough impact to offset how fast google is getting ahead in capabilities. I’d personally suggest that even starting your own capabilities lab is more useful for safety than joining google—capabilities mixed with safety is what eg anthropic are doing (according to me. maybe anthropic doesn’t see their work as advancing capability).