How Yudkowsky and Bostrom shaped today's AI safety discourse 12-16 years ago
Justin_Halford_ · x · 2026-09-18
The original post argues that today's AI safety discourse shows how individuals can have outsized impact: without Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nick Bostrom convincing Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis and Dustin Moskovitz about AI risk 12-16 years ago, the conversation today would look very different. A reply pushes back, asking whether one would prefer a development environment with no safety concerns at all.
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