Banking teaches AI risk: it's not p(doom) magnitude, it's acceptability
neal_lathia · x · 2026-09-13
Extending his point about third-party evaluators, neallathia argues banking manages risk rather than mitigates it: for AI, the question isn't whether p(doom) is 10% or 0.1%, but whether the risk is acceptable or unacceptable — a fundamentally different framing from quantified forecasts.
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