Dan Jeffries: Demanding perfect AI safety is mass hysteria — Waymo is already 94% safer
Dan_Jeffries1 · x · 2026-09-05
Dan Jeffries argues that demanding absolute AI safety before deployment is "societal-level mass hysteria." Humans accept far larger risks daily—car crashes kill 1.2M people a year—without demanding mathematical proof of zero harm.
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