I mean, here are twocomments I wrote three weeks ago, in a shortform about Musk being able to take action against Altman via his newfound influence in government:
That might very well help, yes. However, two thoughts, neither at all well thought out: … Musk’s own track record on AI x-risk is not great. I guess he did endorse California’s SB 1047, so that’s better than OpenAI’s current position. But he helped found OpenAI, and recently founded another AI company. There’s a scenario where we just trade extinction risk from Altman’s OpenAI for extinction risk from Musk’s xAI.
And:
I’m sympathetic to Musk being genuinely worried about AI safety. My problem is that one of his first actions after learning about AI safety was to found OpenAI, and that hasn’t worked out very well. Not just due to Altman; even the “Open” part was a highly questionable goal. Hopefully Musk’s future actions in this area would have positive EV, but still.
I mean, here are two comments I wrote three weeks ago, in a shortform about Musk being able to take action against Altman via his newfound influence in government:
And: