Perry Metzger: History Has Already Proven the LLM Open-Release Camp Right Over Doomers
bradneuberg · x · 2026-09-14
Perry Metzger revisits the old debate over releasing LLMs: the "Orthodox Doomer"/Yudkowsky view held it was too dangerous until the alignment problem is solved, perhaps millennia away, while the other camp argued engineering engagement is the only way to learn to control new technology. His verdict: history has already proven the second group correct.
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