AI evolved from Wright brothers to mass aviation in years, safety lessons won't have time to land
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-10-04
A discussion thread on AI safety: Boaz Barak agrees with much of Daniel Robinson's piece, arguing this isn't OpenAI-specific — the entire AI industry evolved in a few short years from research labs doing cool projects to a technology that fundamentally alters the world, akin to aviation going from the Wright brothers to flying billions of people (AGI would be like jumping straight to commercial space travel).
Aviation learned safety lessons the hard way only because transformation was slow; AI won't have that luxury. The reblogger adds that AI's speed may render many historical lessons moot, making Industrial Revolution analogies useful but incomplete.
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