Thoughtfulness, pro-sociality, and conscientiousness have no bearing on people’s ability to produce aligned AI.
They do have an effect on people’s willingness to not build AI in the first place, but the purpose of working at Meta, OpenAI, and Google is to produce AI. No one who is thoughtful, pro-social, and conscientious is going to decide not to produce AI while working at those companies, while still having a job.
Hence, the effect of discouraging those sorts of people from working at those companies has no net increase in Pdoom.
If you want to avoid building unaligned AI, you should avoid building AI.
Thoughtfulness, pro-sociality, and conscientiousness have no bearing on people’s ability to produce aligned AI.
They do have an effect on people’s willingness to not build AI in the first place, but the purpose of working at Meta, OpenAI, and Google is to produce AI. No one who is thoughtful, pro-social, and conscientious is going to decide not to produce AI while working at those companies, while still having a job.
Hence, the effect of discouraging those sorts of people from working at those companies has no net increase in Pdoom.
If you want to avoid building unaligned AI, you should avoid building AI.