I think you’re conflating “does not think that slowing down AI obviously reduces x-risk” with “reducing x risk is not a meaningful motivation for his work”. Jaime has clearly said that he believes x risk is a real and >=15% (though via different mechanisms to loss of control). I think that the public being well informed about AI generally reduces risk, and I think that Epoch is doing good work on this front, and that increasing the probability that AI goes well is part of why Jaime works on this. I think it’s much less clear if Frontier Math was good, but Jaime wasn’t very involved anyway, so doesn’t seem super relevant.
I basically think the only thing he’s said that you could consider objectionable is that he’s reluctant to push for a substantial pause for AI since x risk is not the only thing he cares about. But he also (sincerely, imo) expresses uncertainty about whether such a pause WOULD be good for x risk
I think you’re conflating “does not think that slowing down AI obviously reduces x-risk” with “reducing x risk is not a meaningful motivation for his work”. Jaime has clearly said that he believes x risk is a real and >=15% (though via different mechanisms to loss of control). I think that the public being well informed about AI generally reduces risk, and I think that Epoch is doing good work on this front, and that increasing the probability that AI goes well is part of why Jaime works on this. I think it’s much less clear if Frontier Math was good, but Jaime wasn’t very involved anyway, so doesn’t seem super relevant.
I basically think the only thing he’s said that you could consider objectionable is that he’s reluctant to push for a substantial pause for AI since x risk is not the only thing he cares about. But he also (sincerely, imo) expresses uncertainty about whether such a pause WOULD be good for x risk