OpenAI should have an internal-only directory allowing employees and leadership to write up and see each other’s beliefs about AI extinction risk and alignment approaches.
To expand on my option a bit more: OpenAI could make space for real in-depth dissent by doing something like “a legal binding commitment to not fire (or deny severance, even for quitting employees) anyone who shares their opinion, for the next 1-2 years.
This policy is obviously easy to exploit to get salary without working, but honestly that’s a low impact given the stakes. (And unlikely, too: If you already work at OpenAI, but are corrupt, surely you could do something bigger than “collect 2 years of salary while doing nothing”?)
To expand on my option a bit more: OpenAI could make space for real in-depth dissent by doing something like “a legal binding commitment to not fire (or deny severance, even for quitting employees) anyone who shares their opinion, for the next 1-2 years.
This policy is obviously easy to exploit to get salary without working, but honestly that’s a low impact given the stakes. (And unlikely, too: If you already work at OpenAI, but are corrupt, surely you could do something bigger than “collect 2 years of salary while doing nothing”?)