Spaceflight is not safe by any ordinary standard of safety, and pretending otherwise is what kills crews.

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• A crewed rocket cannot be made safe by making the booster reliable, so the only real way to improve safety is to carry an escape system. JBJeff Bezos14 Dec 2023
• NASA denied Shuttle crews parachutes and pressure suits because it had convinced itself the vehicle was as safe as an airliner. WHWayne Hale31 Jan 2013
• People trying to ascribe religious force or a surrender of human judgment to AI models is, he thinks, a real safety issue. SASam Altman3 Oct 2026
• There is no route to AI alignment or safety that goes around reliability: a system that cannot reliably follow a known algorithm cannot be made safe. GMGary Marcus7 Jun 2025
• The field calling itself AI safety is not being remotely productive on the problems that are actually lethal. EYEliezer Yudkowsky10 Jun 2022

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