Viral joke: 'I work for the safety team at Amazon' vs 'at the East India Company'
NathanpmYoung · x · 2026-09-06
A viral quip lands a pointed jab at Big Tech AI safety: 'I work for the safety team at Amazon 😊' followed by 'I work for the safety team at the East India Company 😬.' The punchline implies tech safety teams may be rationalizing harm much like historical colonial enterprises. The author adds they privately put p(doom) around 95:5 and think about AI safety constantly despite not working in the field.
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