"You'll Be the Scapegoats": X Post Asks Why AI Safety Crowd Opposes Agent Sandboxes
basedjensen · x · 2026-10-04
A viral post challenges the AI safety community: when an AI agent incident inevitably happens, the scapegoats will be safety advocates—not labs, VCs, or agent developers. The author argues it's self-defeating for safety folks to oppose sandboxes, since sandboxing is exactly what reduces incident risk and protects their own credibility. The take is drawing debate over the safety community's internal coherence.
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