If you’re striking for better working conditions and more pay, your employer can get you back to work by improving your conditions and raising your pay. If you’re striking because you’re unwilling to work on AI capability stuff until AI safety work catches up—which will surely take years even if no one works on AI capabilities at all—then your employer can’t get you back to work because AI capability work is your job.
So what you’re proposing really isn’t a strike. It’s “AI capability workers should demand to be moved to other work, or quit their jobs”.
Yeah, it’s not the kind of strike whose purpose is to get concessions from employers. Though I guess the thing in Atlas Shrugged was also called a “strike” and it seems similar in spirit to this.
If you’re striking for better working conditions and more pay, your employer can get you back to work by improving your conditions and raising your pay. If you’re striking because you’re unwilling to work on AI capability stuff until AI safety work catches up—which will surely take years even if no one works on AI capabilities at all—then your employer can’t get you back to work because AI capability work is your job.
So what you’re proposing really isn’t a strike. It’s “AI capability workers should demand to be moved to other work, or quit their jobs”.
Yeah, it’s not the kind of strike whose purpose is to get concessions from employers. Though I guess the thing in Atlas Shrugged was also called a “strike” and it seems similar in spirit to this.