OpenAI
Seeing someone as trustworthy as Scott choose to work on AI safety is a pretty good sign for the state of the field IMO.  It seems like a lot of studious people agree AI alignment is important but then end up shoehorning the problem into whatever framework they are most expert in.  When all you have is a hammer etc...  I feel like he has good enough taste to avoid this pitfall.<p>Semi-related - I&#x27;d want to see some actual practical application for this research to prove they&#x27;re on the right track.  But maybe conceptually that&#x27;s just impossible without a strong AI to test with, at which point it&#x27;s already over?  Alignment papers are impressively complex and abstract but I have this feeling while reading them that it&#x27;s just castles made of sand.