Safety researcher warns: talent drain to frontier labs may be a collective action failure
divyasiddarth · x · 2026-08-19
The quoted author argues from firsthand observation that people recently joining frontier AI labs are principled and brilliant, and each made a rational individual choice — yet this may amount to a collective action failure that weakens independent oversight.
The author sees part of their job as recruiting people to independent eval/auditing orgs like @collectintel, @AVERIorg and @TransluceAI, and calls on funders to keep supporting the epistemic health of the ecosystem with well-resourced independent organizations. The person being quoted adds that joining an independent eval/auditing org right now is "untapped alpha".
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