Letters to attorney generals, etc, to block OpenAI from moving assets into a corporation.
- Sep: Public Citizen
- Dec: Meta
- Jan, Apr: Californian civil society nonprofits
- Apr: Coalition for AI Nonprofit Integrity
- Apr: Safety ex-employees' brief for Musk lawsuit
- Apr: Safety+ researchers on 'not for private gain'
This petition has the most rigorous legal arguments in my opinion.
Others I know also back a block (#JusticeForSuchir, Ed Zitron, Stop AI, creatives for copyright). What’s cool is how diverse the backers are, from skeptics to doomers, and from tech whistleblowers to creatives.
Is OpenAI going for profit in order to attract more investment/talent a good or bad thing for AI safety?
On the one hand people want American companies to win the AGI race, and this could contribute to that. On the other hand, OpenAI would be then be more tied to making profit which could conflict with AI safety goals.
It’s bad to support a race here. Given that no-one has a way to safely constrain open-endedly learning autonomous machinery, and there are actual limits to control.
Yes I agree it's bad to support a race, but it's not as simple as that.