Hot take: disqualify anyone who called GPT-2/3 risky from AI safety debates
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-09-14
A viral take argues that serious AI safety discussions should start by disqualifying anyone who claimed GPT-2/GPT-3 qualified as risky technology — implying early risk inflation has damaged the credibility of today's safety debates. It feeds into the ongoing doomer-vs-realist fight in the AI safety community.
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