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An apparatus made entirely of compliant fiduciary AI could help powerful actors pursue power through illegal, highly illegitimate, or otherwise objectionable actions.
Ryan Greenblatt · Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? · 11 Aug 2026
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“Whereas if your whole apparatus is built entirely out of these sort of good fiduciary AIs, then you might be in trouble where basically there are potentially ways of seeking power that are not like that. Well, either they're illegal,”
“but you're not you can ask your AIs for how to commit crimes or they're not illegal,”
“but are highly illegitimate or even worse, they're not illegal and not illegitimate, but obviously sort of bad from sort of a normal perspective. And I think that these.”Play from 1:07:21Report a misattribution
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