The Missing AI Safety Critique: EA's AI Spending Has a High Opportunity Cost
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-09-15
The author notes a telling gap in AI safety discourse: he has literally never heard a critic make the point that EA's AI-oriented spending carries a very high opportunity cost for animal welfare and the global poor — which he considers true.
It's a compact argument about funding priorities within EA, offering a rarely voiced economic angle on the AI safety debate.
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