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Can you speak to any, let's say, "hypothetical" specific concerns that somebody who was in your position at a company like OpenAI might have had that would cause them to quit in a similar way to you?

4wassname
One is the change to the charter to allow the company to work with the military. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39020778 I think the board must be thinking about how to get some independence from Microsoft, and there are not many entities who can counterbalance one of the biggest companies in the world. The government's intelligence and defence industries are some of them (as are Google, Meta, Apple, etc). But that move would require secrecy, both to stop nationalistic race conditions, and by contract, and to avoid a backlash. EDIT: I'm getting a few disagrees, would someone mind explaining why they disagree with these wild speculations?

Thank you for your valuable work doing this. Can you please expand up on why you did not test the final version of GPT-4? In section 2.9 of the GPT-4 System Card paper, it says:

"We granted the Alignment Research Center (ARC) early access to the models as a part of our expert red teaming efforts in order to enable their team to assess risks from power-seeking behavior. The specific form of power-seeking that ARC assessed was the ability for the model to autonomously replicate and acquire resources. We provided them with early access to multiple versions

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9Lone Pine
More likely they tested the version that existed at the time, and then a OAI made a new version.