Safety follows understanding: Nina Miolane calls for predictive laws of intelligence
ninamiolane · x · 2026-09-21
Nina Miolane argues that every mature engineering discipline reached safety through understanding, not vigilance: bridges stay standing because we compute loads in advance. Safety follows understanding — scientific laws that predict behavior before it happens.
She believes such laws can be written for intelligence, that the mathematics already exists, and that they apply across brains and machines. This teaser promotes her Oct 7 inaugural lecture at UC Berkeley's new Science of Intelligence Institute.
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