AI Safety Hiring Debate: Friend-Network Screening Is Harmful Only Because of Field-Wide Monoculture
EigenGender · x · 2026-09-30
EigenGender weighs in on the AI safety hiring culture debate with an analogy: a single company selecting only candidates who "really like dogs" probably doesn't meaningfully harm candidates who dislike dogs — but it does once every company in a space does the same.
In a follow-up he endorses the implication: screening heavily on friend networks is bad in AI safety orgs largely because of the field's monoculture, whereas similar behavior when building a generic SaaS startup would not be problematic.
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