AI commentator: 25 Fields medalists needing to sign a letter is a failure of AI leadership
avt_im · x · 2026-09-12
Commenting on the declaration signed by 25 Fields medalists including Terence Tao, @avtim argues that reaching the point where such a letter is necessary represents a major failure of AI leadership, and that the frontier labs' race to be first simply isn't that important in the grand scheme of things.
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