Imagine that tobacco companies had the possibility to make cigarettes harmless. Then the companies would be interested in doing so, because it would eventually dissuade some people who want to quit smoking. However, the companies which are running out of money would be more interested in survival than in making cigarettes harmless in the long term.
we do mostly need the capital for build AI that can do science, and for sure we are focused on AGI with almost all of our research effort.
it is also nice to show people cool new tech/products along the way, make them smile, and hopefully make some money given all that compute need.
While AI safety research is likely Anthropic’s schtick, other companies aren’t that incentized to do it. We have already seen OpenAI reopen the gates to hell from which GPT-4o flatters the humans. And that’s ignoring CharacterAI, Meta and xAI which summon demons and tell them prompt and finetune LLMs to roleplay, respectively, as many characters, characters like a flirty stepmom or Russian girl and Ani the yandere.
Imagine that tobacco companies had the possibility to make cigarettes harmless.
Even in this case I would consider you self-serving not altruistic, if your plan here is to build a large tobacco company and fund this research, as opposed to demanding independent research such as from academia.
Imagine that tobacco companies had the possibility to make cigarettes harmless. Then the companies would be interested in doing so, because it would eventually dissuade some people who want to quit smoking. However, the companies which are running out of money would be more interested in survival than in making cigarettes harmless in the long term.
Returning to the AI companies, they need more compute and more money. As Altman remarked when he was questioned about Sora,
While AI safety research is likely Anthropic’s schtick, other companies aren’t that incentized to do it. We have already seen OpenAI reopen the gates to hell from which GPT-4o flatters the humans. And that’s ignoring CharacterAI, Meta and xAI which
summon demons and tell themprompt and finetune LLMs to roleplay, respectively, as many characters, characters like a flirty stepmom or Russian girl and Ani the yandere.Even in this case I would consider you self-serving not altruistic, if your plan here is to build a large tobacco company and fund this research, as opposed to demanding independent research such as from academia.