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As far as I know, Scott Aaronson has been on leave from UT Austin to work on theoretical foundations of AI safety at OpenAI since June 2022: https://scottaarons

• the-grump 4y ago
  That sounds like a conflict of interest. I haven't read his article but would expect this to be noted at the top.
  • mudita 4y ago
    There is a note on Aaronson’s blog post: "[Note for people who might be visiting this blog for the first time: I’m a CS professor at UT Austin, on leave for one year to work at OpenAI on the theoretical foundations of AI safety. I accepted OpenAI’s offer in part because I already held the views here, or something close to them; and given that I could see how large language models were poised to change the world for good and ill, I wanted to be part of the effort to help prevent their misuse. No one at OpenAI asked me to write this or saw it beforehand, and I don’t even know to what extent they agree with it.]"