It’s not a binary event—I’m sure it’s already happened somewhat. OpenAI has had what, 3 different safety exoduses by now, and (what was perceived to be) an attempted coup? I’m sure leadership at other labs have noticed. But it’s a matter of degree.
I also don’t think this should be particularly surprising—this is just how I expect decision makers at any organisation that cares about its image to behave, unless it’s highly unusual. Even if the company decides to loudly sound the alarm, they likely want to carefully choose the messaging and go through their official channels, not have employees maybe going rogue and ruining message discipline. (There are advantages to the grassroots vibe in certain situations though). To be clear, I’m not talking about “would take significant retaliation”, I’m talking about “would prefer that employees didn’t, even if it won’t actually stop them”
This sounds to me like there would actually be specific opportunities to express some of your true beliefs that you wouldn’t worry would cost you a lot (and some other opportunities where you would worry and not do them). Would you agree with that?
It’s not a binary event—I’m sure it’s already happened somewhat. OpenAI has had what, 3 different safety exoduses by now, and (what was perceived to be) an attempted coup? I’m sure leadership at other labs have noticed. But it’s a matter of degree.
I also don’t think this should be particularly surprising—this is just how I expect decision makers at any organisation that cares about its image to behave, unless it’s highly unusual. Even if the company decides to loudly sound the alarm, they likely want to carefully choose the messaging and go through their official channels, not have employees maybe going rogue and ruining message discipline. (There are advantages to the grassroots vibe in certain situations though). To be clear, I’m not talking about “would take significant retaliation”, I’m talking about “would prefer that employees didn’t, even if it won’t actually stop them”
This sounds to me like there would actually be specific opportunities to express some of your true beliefs that you wouldn’t worry would cost you a lot (and some other opportunities where you would worry and not do them). Would you agree with that?