AI Safety Talent Debate: Frontier Labs vs Government as the Point of Maximum Leverage
ShakeelHashim · x · 2026-09-10
An exchange among AI safety figures (@nxthompson, @paulfchristiano, @MilesBrundage, @sjgadler) over where safety talent should go: one argues more people should explicitly choose "the place with maximum leverage to solve these problems — and also to worsen them," i.e. frontier labs, rather than government or independent orgs.
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