Dev: more worried about AI builders justifying harm 'for the greater good' than AI doom
Dan_Jeffries1 · x · 2026-11-16
RTing @thdxr: everyone worries about AI making a hyper-logical decision that wipes out humanity, but "I'm more worried about the people working on AI having their heads so far up their ass they start to justify horrible things for 'the greater good.'"
A shift in AI-safety concern: the risk lies not in hyper-rational machines but in moral creep among the humans building them.
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