Sentdex Blasts EA Monopoly on Frontier Lab Safety Work

Sentdex criticized the EA gatekeeping of frontier lab safety roles, calling claims that only a few can do evals 'laughable' and estimating only 60-80 people share the required EA-aligned consensus, warning of field homogeneity.

2026-09-18 ~ 2026-09-18 · 3 related posts

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