Statistician Kareem Carr: AI safety arguments must show what's uniquely dangerous about AI
kareem_carr · x · 2026-09-11
Statistician Kareem Carr pushed back on claims that AI is uniquely dangerous, with an analogy:
- Give everyone on Earth ten million dollars and the general capacity for harms like bioterrorism rises—simply because people have new options, not because money is uniquely dangerous.
- Likewise, AI safety arguments must identify what is specifically dangerous about AI beyond the mundane fact that increasing human capability also increases capacity for harm.
- He argues it makes no sense to keep everyone poorer and more ignorant for safety reasons.
A notable contrarian take in the ongoing AI risk debate.
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