Uxdesign iconUxdesignSep 18, 2026 ~1 min source read

Altman and Amodei’s “unsafe at any prompt” moment for AI

The AI industry is running the same defense, now we're all sitting in the same seat. Only one of its eight chapters covers the Corvair, and he lost that part — NHTSA later found the car no more prone to rollover than its competitors i.e.

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The AI industry is running the same defense, now we're all sitting in the same seat.

Only one of its eight chapters covers the Corvair, and he lost that part — NHTSA later found the car no more prone to rollover than its competitors i.e.

Car deaths were treated as failures of the person behind the wheel, and Nader put them back on the drawing board.

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The AI industry is running the same defense, now we're all sitting in the same seat. Only one of its eight chapters covers the Corvair, and he lost that part — NHTSA later found the car no more prone to rollover than its competitors i.e. Car deaths were treated as failures of the person behind the wheel, and Nader put them back on the drawing board.

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  • The industry has a failure rate it's working on engineering away, a user base it quietly blames for hitting it in it's current state, and no shared way to measure the damage.

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Nader's fight was never about one car, and neither is this one. Detroit spent a decade calling crashes driver error. they were as unsafe as just about any other car on the market.

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