I’m ambivalent on how good/bad it is to, say, manage AI investments for a generic company pension plan. I think it’s more straightforwardly bad to manage AI investments for someone whose goal is to accelerate ASI development and downplay concerns about alignment risk.
I don’t know what Aschenbrenner or his allies will do with their wealth but I wouldn’t be surprised if they used it for things like lobbying against AI safety regulations, in which case it’s not clear that an AI safety donor would be able to do enough to cancel out those harms. And based on what I’ve seen from his public behavior, I strongly suspect that he’d be willing to lie about this to AI safety people to get them to invest/work with him.
I’m ambivalent on how good/bad it is to, say, manage AI investments for a generic company pension plan. I think it’s more straightforwardly bad to manage AI investments for someone whose goal is to accelerate ASI development and downplay concerns about alignment risk.
I don’t know what Aschenbrenner or his allies will do with their wealth but I wouldn’t be surprised if they used it for things like lobbying against AI safety regulations, in which case it’s not clear that an AI safety donor would be able to do enough to cancel out those harms. And based on what I’ve seen from his public behavior, I strongly suspect that he’d be willing to lie about this to AI safety people to get them to invest/work with him.