Design AI for worst credible misuse, not average user, says critic of private AI governance
AlexTensor · x · 2026-10-23
Replying to Yoshua Bengio and Stephen Casper, InfamousLetters argues that infrastructure sectors like power are designed for the worst credible misuse, not the average user — and AI should be too. The oddity, he notes, is that this judgment currently sits with a few private developers rather than a regulator.
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