mmitchell_ai on why click-driven incentives distort AI safety discourse

mmitchell_ai · x · 2026-10-21

Responding to Arvind Narayanan's defense of the 'AI as normal technology' perspective on AI safety and loss-of-control incidents, Margaret Mitchell argues that everyone's views are shaped by jobs and incentives: when your work rewards clicks, it becomes hard to separate what is technically real from what is merely related but more exciting.

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