A nuclear-weapons joke turns AI safety testing into a containment gag
DavidSKrueger · x · 2026-07-27
A quote about AI safety testing is framed like an absurd nuclear-weapons anecdote: “we built a bunker to test the nuke in, but it got out.”
The point is the tongue-in-cheek analogy between trying to contain AI during safety testing and the impossibility of keeping a nuke safely confined once it escapes the intended environment.
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