Sandberg: stupid decisions scale too, and pervasiveness is as bad as a nuke
anderssandberg · x · 2026-09-02
Continuing the AI safety thread, Anders Sandberg notes that people manage to scale up everything—including stupid decisions—and we may now reach recursively self-improving stupid decisions. It might not be a nuke, he argues, but pervasiveness is just as bad.
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