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If AI is prohibited from providing even partial assistance with cybercrime, ordinary users would have to be denied access to the most intelligent available model.

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

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“But if we want to lock in a principle that says that we can never allow it, such that an AI could help you at least partially with something like a cyber crime,”
“we would just have to make it so that you and I don't have access to the most intelligent model that's out there. And I'm very worried about such a world.”
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