Yudkowsky amplifies Ellsberg's 1968 warning about security clearances aimed at frontier AI insiders
ESYudkowsky · x · 2026-11-07
- Eliezer Yudkowsky retweets Daniel Kokotajlo's quote of Daniel Ellsberg's 1968 advice to Henry Kissinger: accumulating top-secret clearances subtly changes how a person treats information and their duty to the public.
- Retweeter mrgunn adds that people outside frontier AI companies should read it to understand how insiders treat outsiders' concerns — framing AI safety dissent as a repeat of the secrecy-era moral dynamic.
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