AI Safety: Hoax, Psyop, or Product Launch? A skeptical blog essay
MY79 · reddit · 2026-09-29
A blog essay on macanorak.com questions the motives behind AI safety discourse: are safety warnings genuine risk alerts, or marketing and psyop that package vendors' interests and raise barriers for rivals? The author claims "some uncomfortable things happened while everyone was busy arguing about whether to be uncomfortable," offering a provocative take on how safety narratives intertwine with commercial incentives.
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