AI safety critics mock the “employed but worried” contradiction in the industry
max_paperclips · x · 2026-07-26
A repost of a criticism aimed at people who are employed in AI and still claim to believe in AI safety. The author argues that this inconsistency has been obvious since the early AI risk writings, and calls the resulting reaction a kind of cope.
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