AI Safety Researcher Urges Senior Mathematicians to Skip Grief and Work on Alignment
geoffreyirving · x · 2026-09-30
Geoffrey Irving highlighted a post by Omer Reingold calling on senior mathematicians and theoretical computer scientists to jump past the stages of grief over AI progress into productive action — including pushing on alignment research.
Related event: Stanford's Reingold urges mathematicians to confront LLM disruption(3 posts)→
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