People often think these posts come from researchers who don’t truly
believe them. I disagree, that’s not been my experience with Ant or OAI or any other researcher at or near the frontier. I find them to be intellectually honest in terms of believing what they say.
However I don’t think any one company or community or discipline or school of thought should represent an entire industry that is so obviously critical.
We need new and diverse sources of thought and epistemology here including in the terms we use.
as an example: what do the creators of the open models think ( now many here and abroad)?
What about the cyber ecosystem ( since security is a priority )?
What about chip manufacturers or fabs?
Much of the frustration of this discourse is how centralized it is.
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.