AI risks still get 100-1000x fewer people than climate change, argues Ben Todd
ben_j_todd · x · 2026-10-20
Ben Todd highlights Linch Zhang's point that AI safety remains tiny compared to climate change: tens of millions work on climate, with tens of thousands of core threat-modelers (climate scientists), while AI risk still has 100-1000x fewer people. Zhang argues the underdeveloped state of AI safety threat models is mainly a resource gap rather than purely a skill issue among researchers.
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