Miles Brundage Amplifies Snark: 'If I Were an Anti-Plague Institute, I Would Not Cause an Outbreak'
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-10-05
Former OpenAI policy lead Miles Brundage retweeted Matthew Yglesias's pointed quip: "If I were an Anti-Plague Institute, I would simply not cause a plague outbreak." Widely read as sardonic commentary on frontier labs' safety bodies creating the very risks they exist to prevent.
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