New AI risk debate: stop betting that superintelligence can't do real-world physics
daniel_mac8 · x · 2026-09-16
tszzl challenges AI risk skeptics: if your safety argument rests on future superintelligent models being unable to interact with and research new physics in the real world, you need a new argument — implying frontier models' progress in real-world experimentation is already undermining the "models stuck in cyberspace" safety assumption.
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