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.
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.