[stevage]

Didn't the AI companies scale down or get rid of their safety teams entirely when they realised they could be more profitable without them?

[Eliezer]

The safety teams are trivial expenses for them. They fire the safety team because explicit failure makes them look bad, or because the safety team doesn't go along with a party line and gets labeled disloyal.

[ljm]

The first customer is always the investor these days, so anything that threatens the investor's confidence is bad for business.