Speaking in my personal capacity as research lead of TGT (and not on behalf of MIRI), I think work in this direction is potentially interesting. One difficulty with work like this are anti-trust laws, which I am not familiar with in detail but they serve to restrict industry coordination that restricts further development / competition. It might be worth looking into how exactly anti-trust laws apply to this situation, and if there are workable solutions. Organisations that might be well placed to carry out work like this might be the frontier model forum and affiliated groups, I also have some ideas we could discuss in person.
I also think there might be more legal leeway for work like this to be done if it’s housed within organisations (government or ngos) that are officially tasked with defining industry standards or similar.
Speaking in my personal capacity as research lead of TGT (and not on behalf of MIRI), I think work in this direction is potentially interesting. One difficulty with work like this are anti-trust laws, which I am not familiar with in detail but they serve to restrict industry coordination that restricts further development / competition. It might be worth looking into how exactly anti-trust laws apply to this situation, and if there are workable solutions. Organisations that might be well placed to carry out work like this might be the frontier model forum and affiliated groups, I also have some ideas we could discuss in person.
I also think there might be more legal leeway for work like this to be done if it’s housed within organisations (government or ngos) that are officially tasked with defining industry standards or similar.
Hey,
On anti-trust laws, see this comment. I also hope to have more to share soon