I strongly agree with Steven about this. Personally, I expect it’ll be non-impactful in either direction. I think the majority of research groups already have sufficient compute available to make dangerous algorithmic progress, and they are not so compute-resource-rich that their scaling efforts are distracting them from more dangerous pursuits. I think the groups who would be more dangerous if they weren’t ‘resource drunk’ are mainly researchers at big companies.
I strongly agree with Steven about this. Personally, I expect it’ll be non-impactful in either direction. I think the majority of research groups already have sufficient compute available to make dangerous algorithmic progress, and they are not so compute-resource-rich that their scaling efforts are distracting them from more dangerous pursuits. I think the groups who would be more dangerous if they weren’t ‘resource drunk’ are mainly researchers at big companies.