OpenAI research scientist @aidan_mclau argues if you care about AI alignment you should join labs, not METR or Epoch: Theo: "One take I hear a lot is people who are interested in AI and concerned about making AI go well should not work at labs. Instead they should work at independent verification auditing orgs like METR, Avery, Epoch. Presumably you think that more people should work in labs?" Aidan: "In order for people to love the next version of Codex, it has to be aligned. There's immense economic pressure for these things to be aligned, for them to not deceive us, for them to intuit what you mean without you having to say it, which I hope has some really helpful generalization as capabilities get better." "What I do is increasingly alignment research. If you care about things going well, it's an interesting trend that labs are doing increasingly more alignment research. Maybe you should go to the place where the rate of alignment research is increasing." @OpenAI