Individual objections are easy to ignore, and employee leverage shrinks as models improve. That's why the @UTAW_uk / @CWUnews recognition effort at Google DeepMind matters: independent ethics oversight, whistleblower protection, and a right to refuse projects on moral grounds.
P.S. After I finished drafting the essay, the US government forced Anthropic to disable access to its newest models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, shortly after launch.
State pressure on frontier AI is not hypothetical. Governance has to bind both sides: the labs, and the state.
Thank you for your courage in speaking about this publicly, Andreas. I donβt have access to this article, but another side of this is the undisclosed leverage the US administration has on Alphabet, including the FTC, that forced them to such an agreement. The currentβ¦