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The speaker says that, in the U.S. legal system he describes, lawyers are not primarily motivated by the good of the justice system.
Dwarkesh Patel · Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? · 11 Aug 2026
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“in america's current legal regime where like lawyers primarily have responsibility to help you make your case even if they think you're guilty and we have decided the way the legal system works best is if everybody has lawyers that are working in their clients true best interests and there's not some sense in which the lawyer is really truly motivated by like the good of the justice system but i think the way current ais are shaping up certainly like how anthropic's ai is shaping up is like this desire to”Play from 50:26Report a misattribution
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