"If I claimed a 10% chance of killing people, the FBI would arrest me": AI safety jab goes viral
DavidSKrueger · x · 2026-09-10
A widely circulated jab in AI safety circles: claiming a 10% chance that what you're building will kill people would get anyone else arrested, yet leading AI executives make such statements routinely. The post targets p(doom) rhetoric from frontier lab figures, reigniting the debate over vocalizing catastrophic risk while continuing to scale development.
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