SCOUT· 33%22m·2026-09-24·ScienceEveryone is calling for safer AI. So what does that mean?
AI safety has dominated the news cycle for weeks, precipitated in part by an AI attack where a bunch of OpenAI’s agents teamed up and hacked another AI platform, Hugging Face, without humans knowing. Since then, multiple AI researchers have come forward to say they’re worried this tech is unsafe. It seems every day…
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“I envision another language for AI; that accurately represent the semantic weights that were activated. Then backward conversion to a human language. The language model is trained on many languages, information, and has too much knowledge t…”
“Calling for safer AI is like calling for safer torture, safer plagiarizing/intellectual property theft, safer mind control, safer mind reading, etc. Safer for whom exactly?”
“The question posed in the title and thumbnail is "What does making safer AI mean" Nothing, it means nothing. There's no such thing. As they get more powerful, they get more dangerous. They cannot be aligned. there's no solution to the AI al…”
“This is what we need to know! What is on the inside of these systems and what would it take to get better, safer, more meaningful results from them.”
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