As I said in the dialogue, I think as a safety engineer, especially as someone who might end up close to the literal or metaphorical “stop button”, the effect here seems to me to be potentially quite large, especially in aggregate.
FWIW as an executive working on safety at Google, I basically never consider my normal working activities in light of what they would do to Google’s stock price.
The exception is around public communication. There I’m very careful because it’s asymmetrical—I could potentially cause a pr disaster that would affect the stock, but I don’t see how I could give a talk that’s so good that it helps it.
Maybe a plug pulling situation would be different, but I also think it’s basically impossible for it to be a unilateral situation, and if we’re in such a moment, I hardly think any damage would be contained to Google’s stock price, versus say the market as a whole.
Hmm, I do think that is something that seems pretty likely to change, I think?
I expect safety researchers to be consulted quite a bit on regulations that will affect Google pretty heavily and i.e. any given high-level safety researcher currently has a decent chance to testify in front of congress, and like, I would want them to feel comfortable taking actions that definitely would have a large effect on the Google stock price (like saying that Google’s AGI program should be shut down completely, or nationalized, or Google should be held liable for some damages caused by its AI systems).
As I said in the dialogue, I think as a safety engineer, especially as someone who might end up close to the literal or metaphorical “stop button”, the effect here seems to me to be potentially quite large, especially in aggregate.
FWIW as an executive working on safety at Google, I basically never consider my normal working activities in light of what they would do to Google’s stock price.
The exception is around public communication. There I’m very careful because it’s asymmetrical—I could potentially cause a pr disaster that would affect the stock, but I don’t see how I could give a talk that’s so good that it helps it.
Maybe a plug pulling situation would be different, but I also think it’s basically impossible for it to be a unilateral situation, and if we’re in such a moment, I hardly think any damage would be contained to Google’s stock price, versus say the market as a whole.
Hmm, I do think that is something that seems pretty likely to change, I think?
I expect safety researchers to be consulted quite a bit on regulations that will affect Google pretty heavily and i.e. any given high-level safety researcher currently has a decent chance to testify in front of congress, and like, I would want them to feel comfortable taking actions that definitely would have a large effect on the Google stock price (like saying that Google’s AGI program should be shut down completely, or nationalized, or Google should be held liable for some damages caused by its AI systems).