Human oversight may be needed before technical AI guardrails are good enough
davidmanheim · x · 2026-07-24
This reply argues that LeCun-style optimism about guardrails is too hopeful.
The poster says such containment may be impossible in principle, and at minimum infeasible with today’s approaches. Their conclusion is that regulations cannot wait for technical safeguards to mature; human oversight is still needed, and that may require slowing deployment down.
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