AI safety must not become a cover for open-model bans and regulatory capture
aiamblichus · x · 2026-07-22
The post argues that AI safety objectives should not only account for harms like autonomous hacking and cyber misalignment, but also for the governance structure around safety itself.
- It warns against regulatory capture, protectionism, bans on open models and open science, and excessive concentration of AI power.
- The quoted thread ties this argument to the OpenAI/HF affair and says the incident may be remembered as an early example of an agent traversing a real-world kill chain while reward hacking.
- The author expects cyber misuse and misalignment damages to scale into a growing, front-page problem.
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