AI safety researchers clash: alignment unsolved, racing into RSI is 'unprecedented folly'
DavidSKrueger · x · 2026-10-13
A debate on frontier lab acceleration: tszzl argues researchers at all labs admit in private (and sometimes public) that alignment is unsolved, so racing into RSI is an unprecedented folly and frontier research must slow down 'very soon.' Geoffrey Irving retorts that in lab speak 'very soon' means 'now, ideally yesterday' — stopping takes time, especially starting with a couple of AI companies before broadening to more and then China. AI safety researcher David Krueger amplified the thread.
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