AI researcher: no real scientific consensus on AI safety, warns of interest-driven fearmongering
JJitsev · x · 2026-09-14
AI researcher JJitsev argues that, unlike climate change, there is no genuine consensus in the scientific and technological community on AI safety and risk estimation. He claims the vocal groups loudly warning of AI dangers fall roughly into two camps: people lacking experience building frontier models or doing serious safety research, and people with strong commercial interests in monopolization and power capture — with the current wave shaped mainly by the latter.
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