beffjezos torches AI safety crowd: peddling p(Doom), guaranteeing p(1984)=1
beffjezos · x · 2026-09-12
e/acc figure beffjezos (Guillaume Verdon) quotes Kevin Bass to escalate the AI-safety feud: "AI safety means the exact opposite of what the AI safety people say it means. These are profoundly malevolent people." He quips that while they peddle p(Doom), what they actually ensure is p(1984) = 1 — surveillance authoritarianism rather than safety.
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