"Products barely work, yet everyone's racing to add guardrails": data scientist pushes back on AI safety hype
kareem_carr · x · 2026-09-15
Data scientist Kareem Carr argues he'd take "we need guardrails for super-powerful AI" more seriously if these products actually did what they were supposed to do more than half the time — and criticizes vendors for removing functionality from products that barely work in the first place. A representative voice of practitioner frustration with the gap between frontier AI safety narratives and real product quality.
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