Slowing frontier AI has a real human cost, argues long thread
VraserX · x · 2026-09-13
Pushing back on 'the only risk is moving too fast', the poster argues that slowing frontier AI carries a real moral cost.
Key points:
- Capable AI could accelerate cancer research, aging science, drug design, materials discovery and energy systems.
- Every year of delay means people dying from curable-in-the-future diseases — a genuine human cost.
- Safety work matters, but 'slow everything down' is not morally neutral.
- Conclusion: aim for progress as fast as we can responsibly handle, since the most dangerous move may be wasting years in fear of the technology that could solve humanity's hardest problems.
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