People have different expectations on how this'd go → perhaps some people who'd otherwise quit should try variations of protesting without quitting so that we can be more informed
I think something like this ~fixes the ambiguity and corporate sidelining issues people are commenting about. I also expect it's the kind of thing you had in mind when writing: perhaps worth adding a note at the beginning and/or end of the post about how one might protest from within while being legible, and possibly while being as public[1] as someone who quits in protest?
Toy idea, the anti instrumental convergence of crowds:
each agent is aware of the dynamic presented in this post
insofar as they would disprefer the collective's goals to approach a set of instrumentally convergent goals, the agents have an incentive to coordinate to stop other agents from falling into this dynamic
This does seem more fragile than the original concept, and maybe a similar but opposite thing applies one recursion level up (agents affected by the described dynamic have an in... (read more)
If we cannot do compute governance, and we cannot do model-level governance, then I do not see an alternative solution. I only see bad options, a choice between an EU-style regime and doing essentially nothing.
It feels like this and some other parts of the post implies the EU AI Act does not apply compute governance and model-level governance, which seems false as far as I can tell (semantics?)
From a summary of the act: "All providers of GPAI models that present a systemic risk* – open or closed – must also conduct model evaluations, adversarial testing, t... (read more)
To the extent that Microsoft pressures the OpenAI board about their decision to oust Altman, won't it be easy to (I think accurately) portray Microsoft's behavior as unreasonable and against the common good?
It seems like the main (I would guess accurate) narrative in the media is that the reason for the board's actions was safety concerns.
Let's say Microsoft pulls whatever investments they can, revokes access to cloud compute resources, and makes efforts to support a pro-Altman faction in OpenAI. What happens if the OpenAI board decides to stall and put ou... (read more)
Maybe someone from AI Impacts could comment relevant thoughts (are they planning to do a re-run of the survey soon, would they encourage/discourage another group to do a similar survey, do they think now is a good time, do they have the right resources for it now, etc)
People have different expectations on how this'd go → perhaps some people who'd otherwise quit should try variations of protesting without quitting so that we can be more informed