Because intelligence is dual-use, preventing AI assistance with activities considered non-prosocial or harmful requires restricting broad democratic access to many AI capabilities.

“I think there's a more general version of this principle,”

“which is that the dual use nature of intelligence does mean that.”

“If we want to restrict AIs from helping people do things we don't consider our pro-social or beneficial,”

“we just have to limit broad democratic access to a lot of AI capabilities.”