Also possible. Well honestly, I don’t have much data, I don’t have anything to point to a concrete scenario, but I mean more or less: Antrophic, OpenAI and Mechanize (people from Epoch) - they more or less started as safety focused labs or were concerned about safety at some point (also can’t point to anything concrete), turned to work on capabilities at some point.
Who do you have in mind, and what work? The line between safety and capabilities is blurry, and everyone disagrees about where it is.
Other reasons could be:
They needed a job and could not get a safety job, and the skill they learned landed them a capabilities job.
They where never that concerned with safety to start with, but just used the free training and career support provided by the safety people.
Also possible. Well honestly, I don’t have much data, I don’t have anything to point to a concrete scenario, but I mean more or less: Antrophic, OpenAI and Mechanize (people from Epoch) - they more or less started as safety focused labs or were concerned about safety at some point (also can’t point to anything concrete), turned to work on capabilities at some point.