The founders also retain complete control of the company.
Can you say more about that? Will shareholders not be able to sue the company if it acts against their financial interests? If Conjecture will one day become a public company, is it likely that there will always be a controlling interest in the hands of few individuals?
[...] to train and study state-of-the-art models without pushing the capabilities frontier.
Do you plan to somehow reliably signal to AI companies—that do pursue AGI—that you are not competing with them? (In order to not exacerbate race dynamics).
The founders have a supermajority of voting shares and full board control and intend to hold on to both for as long as possible (preferably indefinitely). We have been very upfront with our investors that we do not want to ever give up control of the company (even if it were hypothetically to go public, which is not something we are currently planning to do), and will act accordingly.
Can you say more about that? Will shareholders not be able to sue the company if it acts against their financial interests? If Conjecture will one day become a public company, is it likely that there will always be a controlling interest in the hands of few individuals?
Do you plan to somehow reliably signal to AI companies—that do pursue AGI—that you are not competing with them? (In order to not exacerbate race dynamics).
The founders have a supermajority of voting shares and full board control and intend to hold on to both for as long as possible (preferably indefinitely). We have been very upfront with our investors that we do not want to ever give up control of the company (even if it were hypothetically to go public, which is not something we are currently planning to do), and will act accordingly.
For the second part, see the answer here.