Inside every lab are two wolves: don't destroy the world vs. don't lose revenue
MillionInt · x · 2026-09-16
MillionInt quips that every AI lab harbors two wolves: "I don't want to destroy the world with my invention" and "I don't want to lose revenue to labs I don't like." The one you feed wins — a pointed joke about the safety-vs-competition tension at frontier labs.
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