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When AI Decides You're a Threat — Brad Carson
31 May 2026 18 published claims 2 attributable people
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“Of course, I think a huge worry of mine is this concentration of power and wealth, right, in a very few people. And that's why, you know, over the last few years, things like open sourcing, which has risks as well, I think net net is a good thing because this concentration of wealth and power is is so kind of preening to me.”
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- Machine Learning Street Talk
“If if my history serves me correctly, even after the signing of that of that treaty, there were there were countries that still continued, like, and and a couple at least, that maybe or probably developed, you know, nuclear weapons. And I think that the problem with hypothetical, like the hypothetical AI is that it's so powerful.”
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“I'm sure China is. And, you know, and so I think, if anything, we should, like, learn lessons from what they're doing there and venerate what they have achieved as a culture, you know, without any love for the CCP, of course, or any illusions about, you know, what Xi's ambitions might be that could be inimical to those at The US.”
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“I think that's 1 thing that that I would like to encourage, you know, my fellow Americans to think about is that when you talk about China.”
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“I think, you know, this they had especially when deep sea was kind of making a name for itself, maybe the government liked it because they were making China a champion.”
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“Actually, that actually becomes like a new form of like a digital divide, you know, where if this is that transformative, I want everybody to have access to it. And so this whole question of like how the public sector gets it, how universities get it, how, you know, the benefits of these incredible models are broadly distributed, I think is going to be a raging debate that is underappreciated right now in DC as the models are certainly going to get more expensive, get more gated, and it's going to be by class whether you have access to them or not.”
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“We we we totally misinterpreted a lot of what the Soviets were doing and saw aggression where there wasn't, or we saw nothing where there actually was aggression. And to me, that's like, I think, a powerful lesson about the Chinese.”
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“I think, you know, with this incredible power does come some responsibility that's not codified in law. It's really almost a moral obligation, which to their credit, I think many of the companies recognize this and do their best you know, to try to satisfy that that itch.”
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“Because when the computer says, like, this guy's a Hamas terrorist, or this is an IRGC compound, we know humans accept it.”
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“what happens with AI there? I think neural nets have changed the game in terms of the law of war.”
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“Once you're there, you're in kind of a government licensing regime of sorts. And so you're gonna see more government involvement in this because the the power is just too too great for private sector actors alone to decide its use.”
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“I think the second thing is, and this is a unique part of American law, and it's controversial in some spaces, but it's now well established, that lots of times liability is hard to place on a particular person.”
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“Well, you know, right now, we don't have any regulations. And my view is that groups like a 16 z or people in Silicon Valley have largely captured the process because they work very informally through networks of political influence.”
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“I think the biggest thing that I'm grappling with now in the last few weeks, arguing with various people, is the anthropomorphizing of AI.”
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“Now, that doesn't solve the deep fake porn problem alone because you're still going to see a lot of adult pornography.”
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“It's probably the first 1 in history that's being developed behind closed doors, right, with very little public oversight and with the best minds going behind the doors. So, yeah, I think there should be you know, I'm always excited personally by when I read Argonne is going to try to develop their own LLM for you know, the public sector.”
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“If you're Pliny the Liberator and like a brilliant jailbreaker, maybe you can get around it on occasion. But if you're running these companies, you should expect Pliny to come and jailbreak you, and you should try to protect it against that.”
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“We chose not to use them in some way. And that's, you know, because the rule of military is not to press technology to its outer limit, to like utter destruction.”
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