Musk endorses Amodei's slowdown call; observers cry 'safety psyop'
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-09-13
A repost chain around Elon Musk's one-line endorsement "Dario is right" of Dario Amodei's call to slow AI development. Sam Silverman comments that "the safety psyop goes deeper than I thought," implying an ulterior game behind frontier leaders collectively urging caution; ex-OpenAI safety lead Miles Brundage amplifies it — a snapshot of the AI safety community's debate over the motives behind doomer-adjacent rhetoric from lab CEOs.
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