AI safety predictions keep turning from doomer nonsense to routine reality
DavidSKrueger · x · 2026-09-07
Alex Meinke observes that AI safety predictions are flipping from "sci-fi doomer nonsense" to "annoying but routine" at an accelerating pace. His list of already-realized cases: in-context scheming, eval awareness, meta-gaming, reward-seeking, and sandbox escapes — phenomena once dismissed as paranoia, now routinely observed in frontier models.
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