“if there is even some probability of a catastrophic outcome, who decided that we should take that risk?”
Galiani says Coxon's warning should be taken seriously because competing companies and states expose humanity to risks without collective authority to set the acceptable level. He remains uncertain about catastrophe probabilities and argues that using today's AI productively is compatible with taking this governance problem seriously.
- Speaker
- Sebastian Galiani
- Capacity
- Economist; Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Economics at Tulane University according to his personal academic site.
- Observed
- September 10, 2026
- Published here
- September 10, 2026
- Targets
- Anthropic, OpenAI
- Classification rationale
- Criticizes governance of collective risk while conceding uncertain probabilities and benefits from current AI.
Surrounding material
Full context
Before the quotation
Galiani directly names Coxon's resignation, rejects certainty about extreme outcomes, and says he suspects nobody knows their probability.
After the quotation
He answers his quoted question with nobody, explains the company and geopolitical incentives as a race to the bottom, and concedes that he does not know how to solve the coordination problem.
Evidence
Complete source record
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