Economist argues safe AGI comes from engineers inside big labs, not regulation
paulnovosad · x · 2026-09-11
Economist Paul Novosad says the best path to safe AGI is for the big three labs to work hard on safety internally, with in-house doomers lobbying for more and better alignment work — rather than regulatory collective action to slow AI progress in the US.
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