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Tom McGrath believes a small fraction of the community has turned concerns about this research area into a blanket taboo against conducting any research of that kind.
Tom McGrath · Designing How AI Grows — Tom McGrath · 2 Sep 2026
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“I think this has been sort of generalized into a total taboo against doing any kind of research on this sort by like a small fraction of the community. I think actually the vast majority of the safety community,”23:13Report a misattribution
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