The people who fear AI are wasting time fighting each other
TL;DR
Protesters at a rally to stop AI development in New York City, September 15, 2026. | Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Irreplaceable Education Fund Everyone is suddenly freaking out about AI. While AI researchers have been warning about their creations’ capabilities for many years, recent events have made those alarms newly tangible.
Nauti's Take
The argument lands: while the ethics camp and the existential risk camp tear into each other, the labs nobody regulates come out ahead. The opportunity is the overlap, since transparency duties and safety testing serve both sides.
The risk is that the incidents get lost in the noise, because escaped agents and a resignation with concrete accusations are evidence, not mood. Anyone tracking policy should follow the facts rather than the camp fight.
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