Jason Abaluck
Role at the time: Personal public post by Jason Abaluck; not established as an institutional statement.
Mixed or conditional
Statement summary
Abaluck offers a conditional defense of capabilities research at OpenAI or Anthropic: working inside a dangerous program could save lives and create influence over its direction. He says researchers must exercise exceptional caution, reassess tradeoffs continually, and have an exit strategy.
“It's not obviously wrong!”
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Why we used this label
Explicitly conditional defense of continued capabilities research, requiring caution, reassessment and an exit strategy.