openai explicitly encourages safety work that also is useful for capabilities. people at oai think of it as a positive attribute when safety work also helps with capabilities, and are generally confused when i express the view that not advancing capabilities is a desirable attribute of doing safety.
i think we as a community has a definition of the word safety that diverges more from the layperson definition than the openai definition does. i think our definition is more useful to focus on for making the future go well, but i wouldn’t say it’s the most accepted one.
i think openai deeply believes that doing things in the real world is more important than publishing academic things. so people get rewarded for putting interventions in the world than putting papers in the hands of academics.
openai explicitly encourages safety work that also is useful for capabilities. people at oai think of it as a positive attribute when safety work also helps with capabilities, and are generally confused when i express the view that not advancing capabilities is a desirable attribute of doing safety.
i think we as a community has a definition of the word safety that diverges more from the layperson definition than the openai definition does. i think our definition is more useful to focus on for making the future go well, but i wouldn’t say it’s the most accepted one.
i think openai deeply believes that doing things in the real world is more important than publishing academic things. so people get rewarded for putting interventions in the world than putting papers in the hands of academics.