The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of AI Control
tingshuo · reddit · 2026-10-04
A Substack essay argues that aggressive AI-control postures can be self-fulfilling: heavy restrictions and opacity push capabilities underground or toward less constrained actors, producing the very loss of control they aim to prevent. A governance/alignment debate piece circulating on Reddit.
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