Cambridge safety researcher David Krueger: stop listening to AI CEOs
DavidSKrueger · x · 2026-09-22
David Krueger, AI safety researcher at Cambridge, published a pointed call to 'stop listening to AI CEOs':
- AI CEOs are not the people who understand AI the best.
- What sets them apart is: 1) they wanted to build a technology they knew might kill everyone; 2) they could convince others to give them billions of dollars to do it.
The jab targets the contradiction between frontier-lab executives' doom narratives and their fundraising pitches — notable coming from an academic in the safety field.
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