OpenAI’s safety and alignment narrative is now its last premium moat
ns123abc · x · 2026-07-21
The post argues that OpenAI’s “safety/alignment” framing is now its last moat, because it helps scare enterprises into paying premium prices. The attached screenshot shows a slide titled “Safety and alignment in an era of long-horizon models,” paired with a quote from Noam Brown saying long-running models can solve hard open-ended problems but also create safety risks that shorter evaluations miss.
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