Researcher Criticizes Current AI Safety Paradigm as Unsustainable 'Patch-and-Pray'
davidmanheim · x · 2026-08-13
David Manheim argues that the current AI safety paradigm of "seeing what models can do, shoring up defenses, and releasing" is akin to "Patch-and-Pray" cybersecurity. He notes this approach is critically non-scalable and fails to address the hard problems of ASI, only barely mitigating simple misuse or mistakes.
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