Is the 'Normal Technology' thesis understating risks from models still in training?
petersalib · x · 2026-09-08
- A substantive debate over the AI as Normal Technology paper: petersalib argues the most natural reading of the paper's own summary discounts the possibility of serious danger from a model still in training—a stronger claim than acknowledged.
- He agrees with critics on the social-science point but insists the thesis, as stated, is more radical than it appears.
- joshuasaxe counters that this extrapolates too far, while conceding the paper rightly emphasizes AI's safety properties emerging in post-deployment social context rather than intrinsic lab or pre-release properties.
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