Meredith McKenzie: Big Tech funding and elevating its weakest critics. She says the formula echoes DUMOR-esque X-risk structure, although it is a bit more nuanced. McKenzie: There's a lot of power in focusing on narrative of harms, then failing to meet those harms with any meaningful remediation.
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