Small AI safety trade-offs may compound into complex risks
emollick · x · 2026-09-02
We are reaching the point where many little decisions trading off small decreases in AI safety for real increases in AI utility make sense individually, but are going together into a complex system we don’t fully understand. It is unclear whether these risks compound or not.
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