So your condition is “Severe or willful violation of our RSP, or misleading the public about it”.
My guess is that most people understood the RSP, or at least the part about not releasing dangerous systems, as a COMMITMENT in the sense of “we won’t do this” not a commitment in the sense of “we won’t do this… unless we publicly change our mind first”. I do think it’s hard to get good data on this, but I wonder if you disagree with my guess? It seems like there was at least substantial confusion around this point within the AI safety community (who I’d consider part of “the public”), confusion which mostly could’ve been easily remedied by Anthropic—the failure to do so seems like at least “letting a significant fraction of the public be misled”, which I think counts as “misleading the public”.
Unless, or course, the RSP ought to have been interpretted as a COMMITMENT all along, in which case, this update seems like a violation of an implicit “meta-commitment” to honor the COMMITMENT in perpituity.
If you agree with the thrust of my argument, it seems like you’d have to either 1) agree that your condition is met or 2) argue that it was clear to the public that the commitment was not a COMMITMENT, or 3) argue that there is no such implicit meta-commitment.
I’d appreciate if you would clarify where exactly our disagreement lies.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
So your condition is “Severe or willful violation of our RSP, or misleading the public about it”.
My guess is that most people understood the RSP, or at least the part about not releasing dangerous systems, as a COMMITMENT in the sense of “we won’t do this” not a commitment in the sense of “we won’t do this… unless we publicly change our mind first”. I do think it’s hard to get good data on this, but I wonder if you disagree with my guess? It seems like there was at least substantial confusion around this point within the AI safety community (who I’d consider part of “the public”), confusion which mostly could’ve been easily remedied by Anthropic—the failure to do so seems like at least “letting a significant fraction of the public be misled”, which I think counts as “misleading the public”.
Unless, or course, the RSP ought to have been interpretted as a COMMITMENT all along, in which case, this update seems like a violation of an implicit “meta-commitment” to honor the COMMITMENT in perpituity.
If you agree with the thrust of my argument, it seems like you’d have to either 1) agree that your condition is met or 2) argue that it was clear to the public that the commitment was not a COMMITMENT, or 3) argue that there is no such implicit meta-commitment.
I’d appreciate if you would clarify where exactly our disagreement lies.