AI Safety Researcher David Krueger on Extinction Risk, CEOs and Regulation
DavidSKrueger · x · 2026-09-23
AI safety researcher David Krueger laid out a measured take on AI extinction-risk debates: safety people sacrifice money to be there, CEOs lack credibility but have voiced concerns for years, we don't know how AI would "do the deed" and transparency mandates may require regulation, and only nukes and climate have drawn equally emphatic extinction warnings. His core point: sufficiently smart AI makes strategies unpredictable, so alignment can't be assumed solvable after the fact.
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