But if you really cared about that why would you be so opaque on everything. Usually people with strong conviction try to convince other people of that conviction. For a non profit that is supposedly acting in the interests of all mankind, they aren't actually telling us shit. Transparency is pretty much the first thing everybody does who actually cares about ethics and social responsibilities.

Ilya might be a believer in what Eliezer Yudkowsky is saying, which is that opacity is safer.

https://x.com/esyudkowsky/status/1725630614723084627?s=46

Mr. Yudkowsky is a controversial figure who a lot of AI Safety people tend to distance themselves from because he has a tendency to exaggerate for rhetorical effect, which means that he ends up “preaching to the choir” while pushing away people in the general public who might be open to learning about AI x-risk scenarios but haven’t made up their mind yet.

But I’d like to publicly thank Mr. Yudkowsky and say that even if he has fallen out of favor for being too extreme (kind of like Richard Stallman), Mr. Yudkowsky was one of the 3 or 4 people most central to creating the field of AI safety, and without him, OpenAI and Anthropic would not exist.

wouldn’t that mean that they’ll just be left behind and it won’t matter what their goal is?

It depends how far ahead they currently are.