The 'AI safety' movement is making AI less safe

kept by solarisvoyager sep 22

The AI safety movement, driven by TESCREAL beliefs, is consolidating power and secrecy, ultimately making AI less transparent and more dangerous.

dario, please! - POP RDI; RET;
The article criticizes Dario Amodei's proposal to regulate open-weight models and grant antitrust waivers as a self-serving power grab by frontier labs, not genuine risk mitigation.
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What is neuralese and why is it bad? — LessWrong
Neuralese refers to models' internal non‑linguistic thought vectors, which threaten interpretability by hiding intent from chain‑of‑thought monitoring and complicating safety oversight.
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Why I Changed My Mind About AI Risk - by Francis Fukuyama
Fukuyama argues that extreme AI accelerationist claims ignore material and political limits, making regulation and a negotiated slowdown increasingly necessary to avoid labor devaluation and misuse risks.
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The pace - Vertigo
Dario Amodei confirmed that recursive self-improvement is occurring across AI labs, prompting Musk and OpenAI to agree to external audits within hours.
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