Joshua Saxe Argues AI Safety Debates Are Unfalsifiable

Joshua Saxe published a long essay arguing that all sides of the AI safety debate rely on data that doesn't yet exist and can't be falsified, and proposed a two-axis framework (technical vs. institutional) to map the disagreements. He advocates building agile, epistemically humble institutions that embrace uncertainty.

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