AI Safety Should Pivot to Resilience Over Guardrails
joshua_saxe · x · 2026-07-18
The core of this discussion argues that AI safety has become incoherent as a research program, but this doesn't mean we should default to laissez-faire accelerationism. The author advocates for realigning the safety agenda:
- Decrease the hyper-focus on jailbreaks and traditional guardrails, as models will proliferate uncoordinatedly, making unified guardrails unreliable in many scenarios.
- Increase the emphasis on 'resilience,' focusing on how systems and society can withstand risks in an environment where models are widely accessible.
- De-emphasize purely thought-experiment-based risk arguments, without ignoring them entirely.
Overall, this represents a paradigm shift from 'locking down models' to 'building resilient governance facing the reality of proliferation.'
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