Timothy Lee pushes back: AI risk focus should evolve as model capabilities do
binarybits · x · 2026-10-01
Timothy Lee responds that it's obvious the risks people talk about should change over time: models couldn't hack people three years ago, so focusing on hacking then made little sense — a direct rebuttal to claims that shifting safety priorities discredit the x-risk argument.
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