OpenAI Researcher Blasts 'Total Safety Transparency' Push as a Gift to AI's Enemies
trevposts · x · 2026-09-23
AI 2040 proposed 'Total Research Transparency' — labs opening weights, algorithms, and data. akrolsmir countered with 'Total Safety Transparency': the AI safety camp publishing its funding, relationships, and coordination tactics. OpenAI researcher Trevor replies that doing so would be 'an absolutely massive gift to people who want to destroy us,' who won't reciprocate, for low-to-moderate upside — a revealing exchange on the transparency-vs-safety tension.
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