OpenAI Engineer Notes Quick Normalization of AI Power
OpenAI engineer John Allard observes rapid public acceptance of advanced AI.
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John Allard, an engineer at OpenAI, posted on X that people treat powerful AI as ordinary. He wrote that observers focus on containing risks such as an unchained dragon burning a town while treating the existence of such capabilities as unremarkable. The post uses the metaphor to point out fast shifts in expectations during the ChatGPT period. No other sources or confirmations appear in the packet.
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john allard@john__allardI know goalpost-moving is the sine qua non of the chatgpt era, but I’m still a bit dizzy from watching people say “obviously if you don’t chain up your dragon it’ll burn down the town” while barely pausing over the fact that we apparently have dragons now
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