Critic to AI Safety Crowd: If You Fear Your Tech, Shut It Down Yourself
AIandDesign · x · 2026-09-12
A long critique aimed at AI lab researchers, alignment and safety specialists, and everyone calling for a pause or slowdown. The author says that even granting they are telling the truth and genuinely believe we are in danger, he does not care — their fear is meaningless to the majority of the world. His core argument: if they cannot rein in their own tech, they should shut it down themselves — cancel their IPOs, shut down their data centers and labs, turn off the lights — as the most direct action available, rather than asking others to stop.
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