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  • Well this is a great sign for OpenAI. I'm sure the typo inclusive memorandum will save us.
  • The LLM cos leadership are all nutters
  • Is this news at this point?

    You can basically time your openai releases by if another safety person has quit in protest

  • Are there any realistic ways to achieve AI safety? Whatever that even means. How can they avoid users doing stupid/dangerous stuff with the AI?
  • My theory for why OpenAI wants to be regulated is because Sam Altman wants to avoid having to be more responsible and self regulate internally so they can preserve the role and identity of 'move fast and break things' and outsource the more grown up boring stuff to someone externally so that when things go wrong you can point to a government organisation and say hey look were not liable thats their job
  • Used to work as human data trainer feeding data to AI companies. OpenAI projects are definitely the most toxic ones.
  • He is a hypocrite for all we care. You work there for a while when your stock is getting vested and suddenly you have this feeling? Like the dude hired a PR firm as well.

    While the safety and alignment is a real problem, I don’t get this guy or the Anthropic dude. First world problems.

  • Was this a "build better sandboxing" and "don't tell people to eat glue" safety leader, or a Roko's Basilisk believing safety leader?

    A lot of the "AI safety" types are very focused on the latter and not at all concerned with the former. We need both, but we clearly need a much stronger focus on the problems we are seeing now, and much less on the hypothetical problems we might see in the future.

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