Miles Brundage: update your mental model — AI progress won't slow by accident
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-11-10
Former OpenAI policy lead Miles Brundage urged people to update their mental model toward "AI is essentially certainly going to continue to advance very rapidly absent very significant steps to change that," and to ignore "cope-motivated" arguments claiming progress will somehow slow down by accident.
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