The AI safety fog of war
The California state capitol. | Arturo Holmes/Getty Images The debate over what, exactly, constitutes “safe” artificial intelligence continues to heat up. If you’re not part of the hyper-online community of AI wonks, engineers and enthusiasts, you might have missed a spat this week on X between Democratic California state Sen. Scott Weiner and AI nonprofit director Brian Chau, who accused the lawmaker in a lengthy thread of attempting to “crush OpenAI’s competitors” and “hurt startups and open source”