AI safety monitoring could consume 20% of inference compute
ohlennart · x · 2026-08-19
The author clarifies the debate on AI safety spending, emphasizing that monitoring eats compute—potentially up to 20% of the inference compute being monitored. This 'safety tax' scales directly with token usage.
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