AI Safety infighting: researcher accused of inflating AI risks to sell workshops
dromanocpm · x · 2026-10-15
dromanocpm accused austinc3301 of having profit incentives to exaggerate AI risks, pointing to $50M in Coefficient Giving funding and dismissing his work as psychology/philosophy tests rebranded as "Safety & Alignment Research." He touts his own free workshops at ETH Zurich and ITU as Chief Infrastructure Protection Officer of the International AI Safety Commission. In context, austinc responds that he sincerely believes experts and governments are underweighting AI risks.
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