Defending AI risk concerns: the marketing-conspiracy theories don't hold up
AndyMasley · x · 2026-09-11
AndyMasley argues that most people in AI safety genuinely believe AI risk is real: explaining their concern away as a marketing ploy or regulatory capture requires implausibly strange assumptions about their behavior. He notes critics keep adding epicycles to conspiracy theories that never quite cohere — unless nearly everyone he knows has coordinated to lie to him, the object-level beliefs are sincere.
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