Time to Update Priors: AI Alignment Risks Are Clear and Present
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-08-06
AI safety researcher Nathan Calvin calls for those who previously dismissed catastrophic AI alignment risks as sci-fi to update their beliefs. He emphasizes that society desperately needs these former skeptics to help navigate the challenges now that the problems are undeniably clear. The thread also directly rebuts Marc Andreessen's optimistic claim that AI lacks its own goals.
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