Ryan(@tslryn):I take actual AI risk seriously. What I’m increasingly skeptical of is the fucking theater surrounding it. A model exploiting the environment you deliberately placed it in is not automatically Skynet trying to escape. Yet somehow every incident gets translated into another argument for giving a small number of labs, regulators and safety institutions more control over AI.

2026.09.26 05:54

I take actual AI risk seriously. What I’m increasingly skeptical of is the fucking theater surrounding it. A model exploiting the environment you deliberately placed it in is not automatically Skynet trying to escape. Yet somehow every incident gets translated into another argument for giving a small number of labs, regulators and safety institutions more control over AI.

Ryan@tslryn

2026.09.26 05:48

This is how you completely destroy public trust in AI safety. Real technical failure → apocalyptic framing → headlines about rogue AI → demands for slowdown → demands for regulation. And then people read the technical details and discover the “containment” had a fucking route to the internet.