Longform feature profiles AI safety researchers who 'saw it coming,' sparking debate over who counts
neilturkewitz · x · 2026-09-17
- Reporter Hayden Field published a longform feature, "the ones who saw this coming," profiling AI safety researchers who have warned about rogue AI risks for years, reporting alongside them the day the OpenAI–Hugging Face attack news broke.
- Neil Turkewitz objected that the piece skipped critics like Timnit Gebru, Margaret Mitchell, Heidy Khlaaf, Emily Bender and Gary Marcus.
- Tilman Bayer countered that these figures warned about very different things — e.g. Marcus's 2022 claim that deep learning was hitting a wall.
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