Evan Hubinger Affirms AI Safety Warnings Are Genuine
Anthropic alignment researcher pushes back on claims that safety statements are publicity tactics.
Evan Hubinger retweeted a post asserting that AI safety warnings have never been a PR move. A second post by Alexander McCoy on X described researchers quitting jobs to spend remaining time with families or donating 90 percent of their net worth to address perceived extinction risks. McCoy contrasted these actions with the lack of similar behavior during NFT hype. Both posts appear only in the supplied social media evidence with no independent corroboration.
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Evan Hubinger Affirms AI Safety Warnings Are Genuine
Anthropic alignment researcher pushes back on claims that safety statements are publicity tactics.
Evan Hubinger retweeted a post asserting that AI safety warnings have never been a PR move. A second post by Alexander McCoy on X described researchers quitting jobs to spend remaining time with families or donating 90 percent of their net worth to address perceived extinction risks. McCoy contrasted these actions with the lack of similar behavior during NFT hype. Both posts appear only in the supplied social media evidence with no independent corroboration.
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@Tyler_A_Harper IT HAS NEVER BEEN A PR MOVE. This would be completely obvious to you if you bothered to put the tiniest amount of energy into finding that out, and you should be grateful that many of the people building the machine god have been honest with the public about what…
AI scientists are doing things like quitting their jobs to “spend the time remaining” with their families and writing poetry, or immediately dumping 90% of their net worth into donations to try to stop what they think is coming. That wasn’t happening with, like, NFT apes.
One reason I am reflexively skeptical of the AI industry’s claims is that the very people we are supposed to hail as geniuses also completely failed to anticipate that branding their antichrist box the Best-Case-Mass-Layoffs-Worst-Cast-Extinction Machine was a non-savvy PR move.…
