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Casey Newton

What Casey Newton thinks about AI alignment

@casey-newton · 14 positions · 0 changes of mind

Founder of Platformer, a newsletter on tech platforms and the people they affect, and co-host of the Hard Fork podcast at the New York Times.

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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Casey Newton has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingAI companies are conflicted messengers when warning about AI safety risks, given their own marketing and regulatory incentives.

    Their wordsAI companies make for flawed messengers on this subject: they can reasonably be accused of marketing, of blame-shifting, of regulatory capture, and more.

    ↗The AI safety vibe shiftplatformer.news 1st of 3 in this piece

  3. Our readingNo one, including safety researchers themselves, is yet confident that superintelligence can be safely controlled.

    Their wordsI believe the researchers who say we are nowhere close to being sure of it - and are quitting, in protest, jobs that would make them rich.

    ↗The AI safety vibe shiftplatformer.news 3rd of 3 in this piece