Jacob Coxon and similarly placed persons should forcibly reject the label of “whistleblower”, clarify that their position is based on the publicly available information, and steer toward “conscientious objector” (or some other, better suggestion).
Context: there are moderately strong voices hung up on “tell us the damning proprietary information or your position has no credibility”, and also still the “what did he see...” style comments insinuating that these departures are due to specific observations of emerging model capabilities, alignment failures, etc.
Jacob Coxon and similarly placed persons should forcibly reject the label of “whistleblower”, clarify that their position is based on the publicly available information, and steer toward “conscientious objector” (or some other, better suggestion).
Context: there are moderately strong voices hung up on “tell us the damning proprietary information or your position has no credibility”, and also still the “what did he see...” style comments insinuating that these departures are due to specific observations of emerging model capabilities, alignment failures, etc.
[please let me know if this take is “too quick”]