"AI Safety" Is a Branding Mistake: Calls to Escape Bay Area AGI Groupthink
sebkrier · x · 2026-08-10
AI researcher JacquesThibs argues that people should step outside the Bay Area bubble to avoid groupthink regarding AGI progress, advocating for a broader diversity of thought.
He also quotes jdpressman, who calls "AI safety" one of the biggest branding mistakes of all time. The term allegedly gave people license to introduce irrelevant concerns, obscuring fundamental technical alignment problems like avoiding causal and extremal Goodhart and value loading.
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