Yep, I am generally on the record thinking that Deepmind’s (UK) safety team is doing the best work on a few different dimensions (including taking the existential risk problem most straightforwardly seriously, and generally contributing to discourse and sanity in the space the most).
This isn’t to say I think Deepmind is a great organization! I think a non-trivial reason for my optimism here comes from the fact that the Deepmind safety team is a much smaller part of Deepmind than the Anthropic and OpenAI teams, and this allows them to specialize more into the important things, and allows them to speak more freely because their statements don’t cause everyone to panic or be taken as representative of the org.
Yep, I am generally on the record thinking that Deepmind’s (UK) safety team is doing the best work on a few different dimensions (including taking the existential risk problem most straightforwardly seriously, and generally contributing to discourse and sanity in the space the most).
This isn’t to say I think Deepmind is a great organization! I think a non-trivial reason for my optimism here comes from the fact that the Deepmind safety team is a much smaller part of Deepmind than the Anthropic and OpenAI teams, and this allows them to specialize more into the important things, and allows them to speak more freely because their statements don’t cause everyone to panic or be taken as representative of the org.