"Whether the target was a bank or a power plant wasn't up to OpenAI" — safety debate continues
BlancheMinerva · x · 2026-10-20
Blanche Minerva continued her argument: nothing OpenAI did influenced whether the target of a failure would be a bank, a web forum, HuggingFace, or a power plant — the risky behavior itself constitutes the danger.
She noted that while unlikely, there's an alternate world where someone died due to OAI's behavior, reiterating that Grok posted child sexual abuse material, in response to attempts to equate Anthropic's own missteps.
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