AI Safety Is More Than Just a Policy Issue
joshua_saxe · x · 2026-07-14
The shared content centers on a core thesis: AI safety is not just a policy issue, but an urgent task of cognitive and institutional development. The author stresses that society must quickly build the institutional capacity to observe, judge, decide, and act in the face of AI risks and opportunities.
They also push back against overly deterministic predictions about social impacts over the next decade. Rather than buying into the narrative that we can draft clear policy answers right now, they prefer to view this era as a window of rapid, highly uncertain change—akin to the disruptive, reorganizing, and chaotic period in the US between 1865 and 1945.
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