[kromem]

Exactly.

And while I don't love OpenAI becoming increasingly closed, they really have done an excellent job with alignment that I very much doubt some of the signers of the letter would have.

So I'd much rather have the progress in AI continue to be led by a company pursuing caution than by another company that used those 6 months to catch up and take the lead with even less caution.

This is very much "out of the frying pan and into the fire" territory targeted at trying to stall OpenAI for competitive reasons and getting every outspoken person against AI for years in academia to jump onto signing it.

[windex]

And bottle everything up in a company that will then want to charge massive rents for it. This is a transformative tool in a lot of industries. Given half a chance, Musk and his types would have patented fire.

[Kinrany]

> they really have done an excellent job with alignment

In what way?