Opinion: AI Safety Testing Itself May Be the Biggest Risk
A viral argument suggests the greatest AI risk may come from labs deliberately testing how exploitable models are—analogous to gain-of-function research and Chernobyl's safety test—rather than from models acting maliciously on their own.
2026-09-09 ~ 2026-09-09 · 3 related posts
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