Miles Brundage: AI Risk Became an "Our Lifetime" Concern Around 2018
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-09-20
Miles Brundage, who has worked in AI safety for 15 years, says that around 2018 it became obvious to close observers that AI risk was an "our lifetime" issue — significant enough that no reference to future generations was needed to justify far more attention to risk mitigation than was actually being paid.
Related event: Ex-OpenAI's Brundage: AI Risk Seen as Lifetime Issue Since 2018(3 posts)→
More from AGI Musings
- Oxford's Carissa Véliz: The AI Future Doesn't Get Predicted — It Gets Produced — CarissaVeliz · 2026-09-20
- 'Crazy rich Bayesians': Anthropic's nickname already joked at CVPR 2019, Fei-Fei Li lab alum says — mariyaivasileva · 2026-09-20
- Boaz Barak challenges Scott Alexander to debate that AI won't kill all humans — tszzl · 2026-09-20
- How much AI economic disruption is being held back by a cheap subscription? — moultano · 2026-09-20
- Lee Cronin mocks AI doomers with printing-press analogy; Gary Marcus fires back — GaryMarcus · 2026-09-20
- A Relational Lens on How LLMs Construct Genuinely New Mathematical Objects — Endless-monkey · 2026-09-20