Researcher pressed: if AI risks are real, why aren't labs like Anthropic slowing down?
eyishazyer · x · 2026-09-08
Meta researcher Noam Brown (@polynoamial) posted strong agreement that labs, despite rivalry, must learn to work together "given what's coming."
@eyishazyer pushed back with a pointed question: if the risks are genuinely that alarming, why aren't labs like his and Anthropic actually slowing down? The exchange highlights the tension between lab safety rhetoric and their continued acceleration.
Related event: OpenAI's Noam Brown Urges AI Labs to Cooperate Amid Rising Risks(2 posts)→
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