Yes, the entire redundancy argument hinges on the state of the situation with Hendrycks. Depending on Hendrycks ability to reform X.AI’s current stated alignment plan to a sufficient degree, it would just be another Facebook AI labs, which would reduce, not increase, the redundancy.
In particular, if Hendrycks would just be be removed or marginalized in scenarios where safety-conscious labs start dropping like flies (a scenario that Musk, Altman, Hassabis, Lecun, and Amodei are each aware of), then X.AI would not be introducing any redundancy at all in the first place.
Sure, it’s better for them to have that advice then not have that advice. I will refer you to this post for my guess of how much it counts for. [Like, we can see their stated goal of how they’re going to go about safety!]
They are advised by Dan Hendrycks. That counts for something.
Yes, the entire redundancy argument hinges on the state of the situation with Hendrycks. Depending on Hendrycks ability to reform X.AI’s current stated alignment plan to a sufficient degree, it would just be another Facebook AI labs, which would reduce, not increase, the redundancy.
In particular, if Hendrycks would just be be removed or marginalized in scenarios where safety-conscious labs start dropping like flies (a scenario that Musk, Altman, Hassabis, Lecun, and Amodei are each aware of), then X.AI would not be introducing any redundancy at all in the first place.
Sure, it’s better for them to have that advice then not have that advice. I will refer you to this post for my guess of how much it counts for. [Like, we can see their stated goal of how they’re going to go about safety!]