The Co-opting of Safety

Podcast: muckrAIkers · Jacob Haimes and Igor Krawczuk

Opublikowano: 2025-08-21

We dig into how the concept of AI "safety" has been co-opted and weaponized by tech companies. Starting with examples like Mecha-Hitler Grok, we explore how real safety engineering differs from AI "alignment," the myth of the alignment tax, and why this semantic confusion matters for actual safety. (00:00) - Intro (00:21) - Mecha-Hitler Grok (10:07) - "Safety" (19:40) - Under-specification (53:56) - This time isn't different (01:01:46) - Alignment Tax myth (01:17:37) - Actually making AI safer LinksJMLR article - Underspecification Presents Challenges for Credibility in Modern Machine LearningTrail of Bits paper - Towards Comprehensive Risk Assessments and Assurance of AI-Based...