Fires burn down mountains—so should we ban lighters? An AI-risk analogy goes around
jun_song · x · 2026-09-15
A one-liner analogy in the AI risk debate: a fire can burn down an entire building or a whole mountain if it gets out of hand—does that mean we should ban the sale of lighters? It questions preemptive bans on AI capability via an everyday parallel and sparked a chain of jokes in the replies.
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