An individual Social Psychology lab (or lose collection of labs) can choose who to let in.
Frontier Lab AI companies can decide who to hire, and what sort of standards they want internally (and maybe, in a lose alliance with other Frontier Lab companies).
The Immoral Mazes outlines some reasons that you might think large institutions are dramatically worse than smaller ones (see: Recursive Middle Manager Hell for a shorter intro, although I don’t spell out the part argument about how mazes are sort of “contagious” between large institutions)
But the simpler argument is “the fewer people you have, the easier it is for a few leaders to basically make personal choices based on their goals and values,” rather than selection effects resulting in the largest institutions being better modeled as “following incentives” rather than “pursuing goals on purpose.” (If an organization didn’t follow the incentives, they’d be outcompeted by one that does)
An individual Social Psychology lab (or lose collection of labs) can choose who to let in.
Frontier Lab AI companies can decide who to hire, and what sort of standards they want internally (and maybe, in a lose alliance with other Frontier Lab companies).
The Immoral Mazes outlines some reasons that you might think large institutions are dramatically worse than smaller ones (see: Recursive Middle Manager Hell for a shorter intro, although I don’t spell out the part argument about how mazes are sort of “contagious” between large institutions)
But the simpler argument is “the fewer people you have, the easier it is for a few leaders to basically make personal choices based on their goals and values,” rather than selection effects resulting in the largest institutions being better modeled as “following incentives” rather than “pursuing goals on purpose.” (If an organization didn’t follow the incentives, they’d be outcompeted by one that does)