Reading Ellsberg on Secrets Should Be Required Before Joining a Frontier AI Lab
PierceLilholt · x · 2026-10-07
A quoted discussion points to Daniel Ellsberg's writing on how access to classified, highly sensitive information distorts a person's epistemics. The poster argues it should be required reading for anyone joining a frontier lab and learning all of its secrets — implying that holding AI industry "secrets" breeds its own cognitive biases.
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