AI safety investment ratio lags behind other industries
iamtrask · x · 2026-08-23
Despite talk of catastrophic AI risk, analysis suggests the AI industry's safety-to-capability investment ratio is far lower than in other sectors. The author argues that even treating AI as a 'normal' new-technology safety problem would require significantly more spending.
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