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Frontier AI labs as the best gradual disempowerment model organism

Frontier AI labs as the best gradual disempowerment model organism

A LessWrong post argues that frontier AI labs — Anthropic, OpenAI, and GDM — are the world's best 'gradual disempowerment model organism,' and that maybe second best is AI safety.

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