Jurassic Park analogy for AI labs: raising a T-Rex to see what it can do
arthurcolle · x · 2026-09-13
A viral AI-circle analogy frames frontier labs as Jurassic Park: enormous cost goes into birthing a T-Rex just to learn how to safely contain it and what it's capable of, with third-party assessors stress-testing it in difficult scenarios. The reply riffs: "Start with Velociraptors — smaller, easier to contain, potentially easier to domesticate." A humorous take on the industry's containment-and-evaluation anxieties.
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