If the first group sunk some cost into aligning their system, but that wasn’t integral to its everyday task performance, wouldn’t a second competing group be somewhat likely to skimp on the alignment part?
I think that alignment will be a pretty important desideratum for anybody building an AI system—and I think that copying whatever alignment strategy was used previously is likely to be the easiest, most conservative, most risk-averse option for other organizations trying to fulfill that desideratum.
I think that alignment will be a pretty important desideratum for anybody building an AI system—and I think that copying whatever alignment strategy was used previously is likely to be the easiest, most conservative, most risk-averse option for other organizations trying to fulfill that desideratum.