AI Risk Researcher: My Concern Stems From Ignorance, Not Prescience
danfaggella · x · 2026-09-22
Responding to criticism that he is presuming AI risks will happen, researcher Dan Faggella argues his risk position is grounded in ignorance: we have no idea what AGI would do, so we should not assume it will always act in the relatively small number of ways that support humans.
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