Gnosly

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.

I admire Jacob for walking away and taking this stance despite the incredible financial incentives for him to stay until the IPO. I imagine many employees at OpenAI and Anthropic believe (incorrectly) that being on the inside when superintelligence emerges buys them some protection, from both the inherent dangers and the subsequent social upheaval. But, just as there are no winners in an nuclear war, there are no (human) winners in a race to superintelligence

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