AI risk advocates' poor track record harms open science norms
khademinori · x · 2026-08-09
A user responds to criticism of AI risk advocates, noting that since GPT-2 they have warned of excessive risk, leading to deterioration of healthy open science norms and contributing to hype culture. They acknowledge cyber risk is real but possibly overblown, as people run agents everywhere with poor security.
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