Neel Nanda: AI x-risk skeptics finally updating after the HF incident
NeelNanda5 · x · 2026-09-05
DeepMind alignment researcher Neel Nanda says he's had conversations with people long sympathetic to AI x-risk who only truly updated after the Hugging Face incident and now want to act. He praises updating on new evidence and asks fence-sitters what more evidence they need.
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