After the Hugging Face Hack, a Researcher Calls to Reject the "AI as Normal Technology" Hypothesis
StephenLCasper · x · 2026-09-01
Following the Hugging Face hacking incident and subsequent reporting, safety researcher Stephen Casper argued it is time to decisively reject the "AI as a normal technology" hypothesis.
His argument: any version of it viable today would have to be contorted either into a truism or beyond any reasonable interpretation of the word "normal" — meaning the hypothesis cannot remain both non-trivial and defensible.
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