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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Ca... by pixl97 on Friday February 20, 2026 @10:02AM (#47088864)
>I have no idea what AI safety research at these companies is actually doing.

If you looked at AI safety before the days of LLMs you'd have realized that AI safety is hard. Like really really hard.

>the operators of AI for what their AI does.

This is like saying that you should punish a company after it dumps plutonium in your yard ruining it for the next million years after everyone warned them it was going to leak. Being reactionary to dangerous events is not an intelligent plan of action.

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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Ca... by array_key_first on Sunday February 22, 2026 @04:14PM (#47114746)
> Being reactionary to dangerous events is not an intelligent plan of action.

Yes but in capitalist systems this is basically the only way we operate.

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