Comedian horrified to find his throwaway AI safety idea is labs' only plan
PaulGodsmark · x · 2026-11-13
In a clip being shared, comedian Adam Friedland discovers to his horror that his throwaway idea for AI safety is "the actual and only plan" AI companies have for keeping vastly superhuman intelligence from killing us — capped with a Hitchhiker's Guide "So long, and thanks for all the fish" dolphin image.
AI-safety circle humor: the joke lands as satire of how thin frontier labs' safety plans really are.
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