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Given the growing focus on AIs as agents, I think it's going to be a real issue sooner rather than later.



“Safety” was in air quotes for a reason. The Claude peoples’ idea of “AI safety” risks are straight out of the terminator movies.


Wouldn’t you rather have a player concerned with worst case scenarios?


Defending against movie plot threats has been found not a good use of resources already 20 years ago in the war on terrorism.

https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2005/09/terrorists_...


These aren't worst-case scenarios. That would imply there was an actual possibility of it happening.




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