Scott Alexander: AI Safety Is Not A Corporate Plot
SammaVaco · reddit · 2026-10-19
Scott Alexander publishes "AI Safety Is Not A Corporate Plot" on Astral Codex Ten, pushing back on the conspiracy-flavored claim that AI safety discourse is a corporate plot to burden competitors with compliance costs. He argues safety concerns have sincere, independent origins and that dismissing all safety advocacy as PR weaponization is both factually wrong and corrosive to serious policy debate. The post is illustrated with the classic conspiracy-board meme, winking at the narrative style it rebuts.
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