Inside AI Safety's Cult Culture: Lab Staff Believe ASI Will Buy Them Galaxies
zetalyrae · x · 2026-08-10
The author shares some surprising fanatical views and meme culture within the AI safety community. According to the quoted content, influenced by certain key figures, several extreme mentalities are currently popular in the circle:
- Great Power Competition: Believing a "Manhattan Project" for superintelligence must be initiated to beat China.
- Blindly Optimistic Alignment: Feeling superintelligence alignment is solved or can be entirely delegated to AI in the future.
- Exaggerated Wealth Fantasies: Many lab employees ironically or genuinely believe AI stocks will soon allow them to "buy literal galaxies."
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