Safety work was not early, given surveillance and autonomous weapons pressure
AlexIrpan · x · 2026-07-24
The quoted argument says it was not too early to move into safety work: the decline of hand-written coding, increasingly evaluation-aware models, and DoD pressure to use AI for surveillance and autonomous weapons all suggest the field has already crossed into a more dangerous phase.
It’s a brief but pointed claim that safety researchers were right to take the transition seriously sooner rather than later.
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