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Top AI labs consistently downplay risks in their rhetoric, even when they are doing the right thing in practice.
Drawn from what Zvi Mowshowitz said
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There is a consistent pattern at the top labs, where they downplay the risks rhetorically even when they are doing the right thing in practice.
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Mowshowitz says the labs downplay safety risks in public even while acting responsibly in private. Ravikant says the labs are incentivised toward fear, because fear justifies staying closed. These are opposite accounts of the same incentive: one says the public rhetoric is quieter than the private belief, the other that it is louder.
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