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Notes on “We’re in Triage Mode for AI Safety” by Miles Brundage
Chris_Leong posts reading notes on a Miles Brundage essay arguing that AI safety work is in triage mode. The notes add context, then collect views from Toby Ord, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Dwarkesh Patel and others for rejecting short timelines.
Why it matters
The same thing, for different readers.
What it means for you
Miles Brundage, formerly of OpenAI, expects AI risks can only be partly reduced; the post sets this against people who think progress is slower or less predictable.
For lawmakers
If Brundage's case holds, governments should expect to manage some harms rather than prevent them; the post notes others who would reject that planning stance.
The question it raises
The post asks whether planning for short timelines is wise, or whether broad uncertainty about when powerful AI arrives should shape what safety communities do.
In their own words
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From the source’s own text.
“At best, we’ll 80/20 it — mitigating 80% of the risks with 20% of the effort that we would have applied in a world with slower AI progress and an earlier start on serious governance”
“AI that exceeds human performance in nearly every cognitive domain is almost certain to be built and deployed in the next few years.”
The record
- Questions
- How fast is AI advancing, and where is it heading? · Who can demand evidence, delay a release or stop an unsafe deployment?
- People
- Chris Leong (Wrote it) · Miles Brundage (About them, formerly Senior Advisor for AGI Readiness, OpenAI) · Toby Ord (Mentioned) · Eliezer Yudkowsky (Mentioned) · Dwarkesh Patel (Mentioned)
- What we read
- We read the whole source.
- Found by
- The Radar, run of October 28, 2026, via
ai-alignment-forum(tier 1: the source’s own channel or an official record) - Cite this
- AI Alignment Forum, “Notes on “We’re in Triage Mode for AI Safety” by Miles Brundage”, October 27, 2026. Entry in the Ctrl AI Base, https://ctrlai.com/base/alignment-forum-2026-10-27-notes-brundage-triage-mode