AI safety debate: a gap sits between raw intelligence and real-world capacity to harm
Stephen72549984 · x · 2026-09-22
- In an exchange about AI risk, one side argues the debate should center on intelligence as the innate capacity to learn and leverage information toward goals.
- The author pushes back: the ability to harm requires real-world causal capacity, and there's a break between raw intelligence and the ability to leverage it in physical space—so harm potential can't be inferred from point-in-time snapshots of tech or knowledge.
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