The Two Camps of EA and AI Safety: Why Telling Anthropic to Accelerate Backfires
erikphoel · x · 2026-09-16
erikphoel argues EA and AI safety contain two camps: the 'pause/ban superintelligence' camp sees itself as pro-human and less weird, while the labs' 'accelerate to steer the process by our values' camp is the weirder, often anti-human one. Telling Anthropic to accelerate thus fuels the parts of EA you dislike. The reposter calls it one of the better points made in this week's AI discourse.
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