I just got a message saying my posts about AI safety were “battling against AI” and “not useful.”
Translation: only talk about the shiny upside or don’t talk at all.
Let me be very clear:
I’m not anti-AI.
I’m anti-blind optimism.
You don’t build safe systems by ignoring the uncomfortable questions. You build disasters that way.
History has a name for the people who raise concerns early we call them the ones who were right.
If an AI community bans conversation about risk…
then it’s not a community learning about AI it’s a marketing team cheering for it.
AI is absolutely the future.
But if that future doesn’t include humans staying in command, then congratulations we just built our own replacement.
Positivity doesn’t protect people. Guardrails do.
And if talking about guardrails is considered a threat…that should scare everyone a lot more than the post they deleted.