AI safety debate: is doom-flavored risk communication from OpenAI and Anthropic actually working?
BronsonSchoen · x · 2026-09-09
BronsonSchoen and ericlim debated how frontier-lab risk messaging lands:
- Schoen argues that "we have to keep going because we're the responsible ones" is also bad; statements from OpenAI (Jakub's recent post) and Anthropic insiders mainly show that no one is on top of this, and something like "Pacing the Frontier" is needed
- He cites Evan Hubinger's public adaptation of an internal Anthropic document about communicating risk to colleagues
- ericlim counters that there's a misalignment between how risk is communicated and what follows — building something that could kill everyone while accelerating is incoherent
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