AI safety debate: incident reporting and compute-threshold audits as low-hanging fruit
BlackHC · x · 2026-09-11
In an exchange on AI safety regulation, participants agreed that slogans like 'regulate more' or 'ban everything' are unproductive without concrete, workable proposals:
- BlackHC highlights two low-hanging policy fruits: mandatory incident reporting requirements and audits above certain compute/cap thresholds.
- He notes concrete proposals already exist but lack momentum, urging well-connected people to push them forward.
- sytelus agrees but stresses the need to identify genuinely new, unknown safety issues and think deeply about proposals with a real chance of working.
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