Which of the institutions would you count as AGI labs? (genuinely curious– usually I don’t think about academic labs [relative to like ODA + Meta + Microsoft] but perhaps there are some that I should be counting.)
And yeah, OP funding is a weird metric because there’s a spectrum of how much grantees are closely tied to OP. Like, there’s a wide spectrum from “I have an independent research group and got 5% of my total funding from OP” all the way to like “I get ~all my funding from OP and work in the same office as OP and other OP allies and many of my friends/colleagues are OP etc.”
That’s why I tried to use the phrase “close allies/grantees”, to convey more of this implicit cultural stuff than merely “have you ever received OP $.” My strong impression is that the authors of the paper are much more intellectually/ideologically/culturally independent from OP, relative to the list of 17 interviewees presented above.
Anca Dragan, who currently leads an alignment team at DeepMind, is the one I saw (I then mistakenly assumed there were others). And fair point re: academic OpenPhil grantees.
Which of the institutions would you count as AGI labs? (genuinely curious– usually I don’t think about academic labs [relative to like ODA + Meta + Microsoft] but perhaps there are some that I should be counting.)
And yeah, OP funding is a weird metric because there’s a spectrum of how much grantees are closely tied to OP. Like, there’s a wide spectrum from “I have an independent research group and got 5% of my total funding from OP” all the way to like “I get ~all my funding from OP and work in the same office as OP and other OP allies and many of my friends/colleagues are OP etc.”
That’s why I tried to use the phrase “close allies/grantees”, to convey more of this implicit cultural stuff than merely “have you ever received OP $.” My strong impression is that the authors of the paper are much more intellectually/ideologically/culturally independent from OP, relative to the list of 17 interviewees presented above.
Anca Dragan, who currently leads an alignment team at DeepMind, is the one I saw (I then mistakenly assumed there were others). And fair point re: academic OpenPhil grantees.