RL veteran Szepesvari slams OpenAI's confused AI-doom messaging as propaganda
CsabaSzepesvari · x · 2026-09-21
- Reinforcement learning authority Csaba Szepesvári criticizes OpenAI's safety communication in a thread: if you want AI to be useful, you can't 'airgap' it — a direct conflict that OpenAI's confused messaging only makes scarier.
- His conclusion: if AI posed any significant danger, he wouldn't trust these people — they've repeatedly shown either muddled thinking or deliberate fear-mongering, calling it propaganda, and history shows propaganda works.
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