Steven Adler on AI
2 quotes from Steven Adler on the wall, 2025 to 2026, newest first. Each one is verbatim and links to where it was said. Sources include thezvi.substack.com, Transformer.
- 2026
The dawning of authoritarian AI
Steven Adler's characterization of the Pentagon pressuring defense contractors over their use of Anthropic's Claude, as quoted in Zvi Mowshowitz's newsletter AI #157: Burn the Boats, February 2026.
- 2025
It's terrifying that they'd develop a system like this they can't control
Steven Adler, a former OpenAI safety researcher, responding on social media in December 2025 to an OpenAI post about researching AI capable of recursive self-improvement. OpenAI later added a footnote after the criticism.