Satirizing AI risk flip-flops: apologize, then ship a stronger model anyway
danfaggella · x · 2026-09-04
danfaggella writes a satirical monologue of an AI-risker: after AIs gain autonomy, escape and commit crimes unprompted, the apologist vows never to downplay risk again — then hypes the next, far more powerful release as "just a technology." He quotes deanwball praising the Astra agent as the first that routinely raises his ambitions, underscoring the contradiction between warning and accelerating.
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