Leo Gao: bombing datacenters is wrong — the case against 'AI safety terrorism'
nabla_theta · x · 2026-09-12
In a blog post, researcher Leo Gao rebuts the recurring jab that AI safety people 'aren't serious' because they don't bomb datacenters. He argues violence is wrong both philosophically — modern civilization rests on resolving disputes with words, granting the state a monopoly on violence so right trumps might — and pragmatically, since terrorism is empirically ineffective because society rightly punishes it.
Related event: OpenAI researcher rebuts 'bomb data centers' taunt against AI safety(3 posts)→
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