EA predicted a pandemic but failed on COVID — will AI safety repeat the pattern?
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-09-06
Leah Pierson offers a fair critique of EA: despite predicting a pandemic in the 2010s, EA did little to mitigate COVID's harms. She suggests AI may follow the same arc, but argues EA was right to invest early in AI safety, journalism, and policy.
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