Trask: AI risk comms is a messy mix of safety, marketing, and policy
iamtrask · x · 2026-08-22
AI researcher Ian Trask responds to the controversy, arguing that AI company communications are not driven by a single motive but a complex mix of forces: earnest safety researchers, sophisticated marketing teams selling expensive products, and policy experts using the Overton window to benefit their employers. Reducing it all to marketing failure is incorrect.
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