AI safety community mocked as 'bridge engineers' who say bridges can never be safe
Dan_Jeffries1 · x · 2026-09-11
John Ennis questioned whether AI safety is just hysterical posting, noting that the people tasked with preventing incidents like the Hugging Face breach seemed asleep at the wheel. Dan Jeffries1 amplified the jab, comparing safety researchers to bridge engineers who spend all their time insisting bridges can never be made safe and they have no way to design safeguards, quipping that the field may need better engineers.
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