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Can the Safety Tax Be Highly Concentrated?

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Brief

An EA Forum post arguing that AI safety costs may be manageable if expensive safeguards are applied only to the small fraction of actions with catastrophic risk, reducing the effective alignment tax. The post frames this as a response to the standard competitive objection against compute-heavy safety measures.

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Posted
6/15/2026

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