Besides pledges by employees, it seems like it would be valuable if people concerned by AI risks pledged not to seek employment at companies developing frontier AIs.
AI safety researchers will be subject to particularly bad incentives when they are employed by companies that give capability higher priority than safety, and whose safety statements have low credibility. Non-employment pledges avoid those bad incentives.
By bringing up non-employment pledges, I don’t mean to argue against pledges by employees. Both kinds of pledges can be especially useful if many people take them, making it common knowledge that peers are concerned enough to change behaviors.
Besides pledges by employees, it seems like it would be valuable if people concerned by AI risks pledged not to seek employment at companies developing frontier AIs.
AI safety researchers will be subject to particularly bad incentives when they are employed by companies that give capability higher priority than safety, and whose safety statements have low credibility. Non-employment pledges avoid those bad incentives.
By bringing up non-employment pledges, I don’t mean to argue against pledges by employees. Both kinds of pledges can be especially useful if many people take them, making it common knowledge that peers are concerned enough to change behaviors.