🧩 Philosophy 1d ago · Ryan Kidd

Should safety researchers quit frontier labs re. warning shots?

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I've recently heard a surge of support for an old argument: AI safety researchers should not work at frontier AI companies because this reduces the likelihood of non-lethal warning shots, and we need warning shots to build support for an AI pause/slow-down. This argument has several components:Technical AI safety work is futile, absent an AI pause: Current "prosaic AGI" safety research agendas pursued at frontier AI companies, like AI control, scalable oversight, interpretability, etc., might no

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