AI Now's Sarah Myers West: "Safe Only in Our Hands" Mindset Fuels AI Race to the Bottom
S_OhEigeartaigh · x · 2026-09-15
Sarah Myers West, co-executive director of the AI Now Institute, argues frontier labs share the premise that AI is "only safe in their hands," and that this paranoia is fueling a race to the bottom. The poster agrees and welcomes cooperation around recent "pacing the frontier" proposals. The linked Guardian analysis traces a decade of doomsday warnings—from Stephen Hawking to Altman's 2015 letter to Musk to the recent viral Anthropic resignation—that failed to slow the AI race.
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