I could imagine someone suppressing their alignment fears temporarily, to work their way up to a position of power in a capabilities lab and then steer outcomes from there.
But that doesn’t seem to work, since:
The top AI capabilities labs (OpenAI, DeepMind, Anthropic) are more vocal about capabilities. Meta AI is a follow-the-leader lab anyway.
I don’t think “bringing up concerns later, instead of now” is a strategically great way to do this. I don’t know a ton about the politics of historical programs for e.g. atomic weapons and bioweapons. But based on my cursory knowledge, I don’t think “be worried in secret” is anything like a slam-dunk for those situations.
Yann, specifically, is already the Chief AI Person at Meta/Facebook! Unless Meta is really quick to fire people (or Yann is angling for Zuckerberg’s position), what more career capital could he gain at this stage?
That’s also my confusion, yes.
I could imagine someone suppressing their alignment fears temporarily, to work their way up to a position of power in a capabilities lab and then steer outcomes from there.
But that doesn’t seem to work, since:
The top AI capabilities labs (OpenAI, DeepMind, Anthropic) are more vocal about capabilities. Meta AI is a follow-the-leader lab anyway.
I don’t think “bringing up concerns later, instead of now” is a strategically great way to do this. I don’t know a ton about the politics of historical programs for e.g. atomic weapons and bioweapons. But based on my cursory knowledge, I don’t think “be worried in secret” is anything like a slam-dunk for those situations.
Yann, specifically, is already the Chief AI Person at Meta/Facebook! Unless Meta is really quick to fire people (or Yann is angling for Zuckerberg’s position), what more career capital could he gain at this stage?