Safety veteran pushes back: internal safety teams can exist to make companies look good
joshua_saxe · x · 2026-09-09
Responding to the critique that alignment staff who truly believe in AI risk shouldn't leave their labs, Joshua Saxe disagrees: internal safety teams can be there to make the company look good rather than to make the product safe — it's complicated.
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