What if AI Safety employees unionised? — LessWrong
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x What if AI Safety employees unionised? — LessWrong Coordination / Cooperation AI Frontpage 34 What if AI Safety employees unionised? by beyarkay (Boyd Kane) 14th Jul 2026 6 min read 21 34 American bald eagle caws angrily in the distance Whoa whoa whoa, just hear me out. Unions aren’t usually a good answer for free-market loving libertarians, but one particular AI safety problem is awfully union-shaped: Repeatedly, companies have started out being pro-AI safety and talked the talk about how they’d take precautions around building advanced AI systems. Repeatedly, this line was used to placate
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