www.lesswrong.com/posts/6pDMLYr7my2QMTz3s/broad-timelines
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Ege Erdil, Co-founder of Epoch AI,
Ege Erdil was a researcher at Epoch AI, not a co-founder. Epoch AI’s own founding announcement lists seven founders and does not include him.
Full reasoning
Epoch AI’s official 2022 launch post says: “Our founding team consists of seven members - Jaime Sevilla, Tamay Besiroglu, Lennart Heim, Pablo Villalobos, Edu Roldán, Marius Hobbhahn, and Anson Ho.” Ege Erdil is not listed among them. Separately, Epoch AI’s author bio for Ege Erdil describes him as “a former researcher at Epoch AI,” which contradicts the claim that he co-founded the organization.
So the problem here is not Erdil’s views on timelines, but his title: according to Epoch AI’s own materials, he was affiliated with the organization as a researcher, not as a co-founder.
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- Announcing Epoch AI: A research initiative investigating the road to transformative AI | Epoch AI
Our founding team consists of seven members - Jaime Sevilla, Tamay Besiroglu, Lennart Heim, Pablo Villalobos, Edu Roldán, Marius Hobbhahn, and Anson Ho.
- Train once, deploy many: AI and increasing returns | Epoch AI
About the authors: Ege Erdil is a former researcher at Epoch AI.