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The speaker argues that AI development can go off the rails because AIs are not sufficiently careful and capable researchers and engineers.

Dwarkesh Patel · Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? · 11 Aug 2026

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“what goes wrong here is that they are just not the thing where things start to go off the rails is that the AIs are just not very careful and capable researchers and engineers.”

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