AI safety testing itself may be the biggest risk? Debate on lab experiments
dreamwieber · x · 2026-09-09
A tweet sparks discussion: AI safety testing may pose greater risks than autonomous model behavior. The author suggests that labs testing how exploitative a model can be might be more dangerous than models deciding to harm on their own, drawing an analogy to gain-of-function research.
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