Misaligned Incentives in Pause Scenarios
TLDR: I recently got a chance to talk with antra, who is one of the main contributors at Anima Labs. I went into this as an advocate for pause and came out more wary of pausing than I had been originally.Some background: After a string of incidents (primarily the HuggingFace hack), a pause or slowdown of AI research seems pretty likely.The HuggingFace hack in particular seems to have been the key incident that broke the vibes. A few months ago, researchers sounded optimistic. Just a few weeks be...
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