AI safety researcher recounts his decade-long path from skeptic to believer
JacquesThibs · x · 2026-09-14
An AI safety researcher traces how he came to believe advanced AI risk is serious: in 2015 he dismissed a suggestion to pivot into the field, in 2018 he studied forecasts of malicious AI use and AI's role in influencing populations, then realized AI was moving far faster than expected. Even in 2020-2021 he worried AI safety advocates had fallen into intellectually status-seeking groupthink—before top-lab researcher status became prestigious. A look at how a skeptical smart person gradually changed his mind.
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