AI safety discourse is sliding back from paperclips to thought policing
RexDouglass · x · 2026-10-10
Rex Douglass vents about AI safety discourse: just as the field escaped progressive 'mind virus' debates and returned to genuinely cool safety questions like the paperclip problem, someone found a way to drag it back into policing bad think. A snapshot of the ongoing tension between technical risk work and ideology-flavored content-risk debates in the AI safety community.
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