Should You Take Roles That Advance AI Capabilities?

If you feel your ability to model social situations is not adequate, don't try to work on AI capabilities research in any setting. Work on rudimentary AI capabilities for a small lab is probably fine as long as you're not pushing forward the state of the art. Don't participate in large defections against major labs who are trying to prevent the spread of societally harmful tech. For instance, I think you should not attempt to reproduce GPT-4 and release or deploy it in ways that circumvent all the hard work the open AI team will have done to ensure their version of the model is being used ethically. That's the end of the advice from the 11 anonymous experts. If you