Prediction: 99% of Researchers Will Work on Safety-Related Roles
maksym_andr · x · 2026-09-01
Predicts that the vast majority of researchers and engineers will eventually work on safety-related tasks. Cites a case where a company temporarily reassigned 150 product engineers to security, reliability, and privacy, while researchers rotated out of pretraining to focus on safeguards.
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