You mention the number of people at OpenAI doing alignment work. I think it would be helpful to compile a list of the different labs and the number of people that can be reasonably said to be doing alignment work. Then we could put together a chart of sorts, highlighting this gap.
Highlighting gaps like this is a proven and effective strategy to drive change when dealing with various organizational-level inequities.
If people reading this comment have insight into the number of people at the various labs doing alignment work and/or the total number of people at said labs: please comment here!
Thank you for this. This is very close to what I was hoping to find!
It looks like Benjamin Hilton makes a rough guess of the proportion of workers dedicated to AI x-risk for each organization. This seems appropriate for assessing a rough % across all organizations, but if we want to nudge organizations to employ more people toward alignment then I think we want to highlight exact figures.
E.g. we want to ask the organizations how many people they have working on alignment and then post what they say—a sort of accountability feedback loop.