Séb Krier, Google DeepMind AGI policy lead, and Miles Brundage debate aligning AI research with corporate public relations
Brundage argues the outcome would vary significantly by company.
Reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_voter_theorem
Miles Brundage@Miles_BrundageMedian MTS theorem: a frontier AI company’s policy positions eventually converge to those of the median member of technical staff there
For a while OpenAI was an outlier here but is starting to converge
GDM is probably the biggest outlier now
Miles Brundage@Miles_BrundageReference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_voter_theorem
@sebkrier Depending on the company, that could look quite different!
Séb Krier@sebkrier@Miles_Brundage imagine if a frontier AI company’s product/research agenda converged to the ideas of the median member of public affairs team
@sebkrier (whereas I think MTS medians are more similar, outside perhaps xAI)
Miles Brundage@Miles_Brundage@sebkrier Depending on the company, that could look quite different!
@Miles_Brundage imagine if a frontier AI company’s product/research agenda converged to the ideas of the median member of public affairs team
Miles Brundage@Miles_BrundageMedian MTS theorem: a frontier AI company’s policy positions eventually converge to those of the median member of technical staff there
@Miles_Brundage alas!
Miles Brundage@Miles_Brundage@sebkrier (whereas I think MTS medians are more similar, outside perhaps xAI)
@Miles_Brundage Why was OpenAI an outlier?
Miles Brundage@Miles_BrundageFor a while OpenAI was an outlier here but is starting to converge GDM is probably the biggest outlier now