AI safety researcher: binary framings distort expert disagreements across multiple axes
xuanalogue · x · 2026-09-17
xuanalogue laments the proliferation of "my side vs. their side" framings in AI safety/risk discourse, arguing that disagreements among experts actually span multiple independent axes — views on AI capabilities and views on AI risks correlate but aren't the same, so any binary categorization gives a poor map of the landscape. They link to a lecture attempting to characterize these axes of disagreement.
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