Robotics AI safety veteran: people who believe AI risks take them dead seriously
amankhan · x · 2026-09-10
An author with hands-on AI safety/interpretability/evals experience in robotics says people who genuinely believe in AI dangers take the work extremely seriously, and flippant mockery is almost offensive. He still questions how p-doom figures like ">10%" are derived, arguing economic inequality from AI is the bigger risk.
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