Subtract OpenAI, Google, StabilityAI and Anthropic affiliated researchers (who have a lot to gain) and not many academic signatories are left.
Notably missing representation from the Stanford NLP (edit: I missed that Diyi Yang is a signatory on first read) and NYU groups who’s perspective I’d also be interested in hearing.
Not committing one way or another regarding the intent with this but it’s not as diverse an academic crowd as the long list may suggest and for a lot of these names there are incentives to act dishonestly (not claiming that they are).
Notably missing representation from the Stanford NLP (edit: I missed that Diyi Yang is a signatory on first read) and NYU groups who’s perspective I’d also be interested in hearing.
Not committing one way or another regarding the intent with this but it’s not as diverse an academic crowd as the long list may suggest and for a lot of these names there are incentives to act dishonestly (not claiming that they are).