JeffLadish: fully automated AI R&D is a catastrophe, plausibly literal death

JeffLadish · x · 2026-09-07

AI safety researcher JeffLadish says he'll hold labs to extremely high standards of transparency, owing it to friends inside and outside the labs to call things as he sees them. He warns against the default plan of fully automated AI R&D, calling it a catastrophe — plausibly literal death.

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