Dev pushes back on AI safety fearmongering: 'panic has no place in AI safety discourse'
gpt2chatbot · x · 2026-09-10
Responding to the wave of AI safety alarmism on X, developer gpt2chatbot argues that fearmongering has never brought safety — it's a scare tactic to hand hard-won freedoms to the power-hungry. Even when the fear is genuine, peddling it is irresponsible because it will be exploited for greater harms, the author writes, concluding that panic has no place in AI safety discourse.
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