Taylor Lorenz to AI Safety World: Offer Concrete Plans, Not Just Scary Posts
TaylorLorenz · x · 2026-09-09
Journalist Taylor Lorenz pushed back on AI safety discourse: she's willing to believe extreme claims could be true, but employees calling their employer negligent enough to endanger humanity need to explain specifically what's wrong and what must change. Andy Masley countered that many smart people have engaged seriously with the arguments, and that the safety ecosystem does have plenty of concrete policy proposals.
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