Digital Rockets, Peer Review, and the Dilution of the Causal Loop
Amid calls for frontier AI laboratories to grant advance API access and run reciprocal 'peer-review' test harnesses before releasing models, society instinctively views this as prudent governance. Yet it conceals a fundamental category error: AI is not an autonomous lifeform; it is a digital rocket. In commercial aerospace, had SpaceX been mandated to obtain safety certifications from legacy competitors before flight, reusable rocketry would have stalled early on. This regime sounds reasonable in AI solely because analysts adopt a flawed premise: projecting human subjective agency onto a…
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