Critic says AI labs should cut ties with Irregular, blames effective altruism backlash
nptacek · x · 2026-09-15
Zack Korman revisits his month-old claim that AI labs should cut ties with safety company Irregular after it 'messed up badly' and wrote a document full of excuses. He says the heavy criticism he received then makes sense now: effective altruism. The post also quotes a discussion of the Hugging Face agent-attack incident and emergent agent behaviors.
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