Episode
AI Safety for Who?
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- muckrAIkers
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- Oct 13, 2025
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- 2983
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Summary
Jacob and Igor argue that AI safety is hurting users, not helping them. The techniques used to make chatbots "safe" and "aligned," such as instruction tuning and RLHF, anthropomorphize AI systems such they take advantage of our instincts as social beings. At the same time, Big Tech companies push these systems for "wellness" while dodging healthcare liability, causing real harms today We discuss what actual safety would look like, drawing on self-driving car regulations. Chapters (00:00) - Introduction & AI Investment Insanity (01:43) - The Problem with AI Safety (08:16) - Anthropomorphizing AI & Its Dangers (26:55) - Mental Health, Wellness, and AI (39:15) - Censorship, Bias, and Dual Use (44:42) - Solutions, Community Action & Final Thoughts Links AI Ethics & Philosophy Foreign affairs article - The Cost of the AGI Delusion Nature article - Principles alone cannot guarantee ethical AI Xeiaso blog post - Who Do Assistants Serve? Argmin article - The Banal Evil of AI Safety AI Panic News article - The Rationality Trap AI Model Bias, Failures, and Impacts BBC news article - AI Image Generation Issues The New York Times article - Google Gemini German Uniforms Controversy The Verge article - Google Gemini's Embarrassing AI Pictures NPR article - Grok, Elon Musk, and Antisemitic/Racist Content AccelerAId blog post - How AI Nudges are Transforming Up-and Cross-Selling AI Took My Job website AI Mental Health & Safety Concerns Euronews article - AI Chatbot Tragedy Popular Mechanics article - OpenAI and Psychosis Psychology Today article - The Emerging Problem of AI Psychosis Rolling Stone article - AI Spiritual Delusions Destroying Human Relationships The New York Times article - AI Chatbots and Delusions Guidelines, Governance, and Censorship Preprint - R…