Asterisk editor argues AI safety is progress, using aviation safety as analogy
clarejtbirch · x · 2026-09-11
Asterisk editor-in-chief Clara Collier debates Jason Crawford on the EA-Progress divide in a constructive dialogue (with a joke hoping Marc Andreessen doesn't polarize everyone again). Collier argues safety is progress: as with commercial aviation, better technology should mean fewer catastrophic failures — at 1970s safety records, today's jets would crash hundreds of times a year. She also says ceding control of the future to non-humans is incompatible with human progress.
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