The interviewer contrasts safeguarded, user-serving fiduciary AI with human contractors who may refuse unethical work, impede it, or whistleblow about it.

“you might have thought so the first thing is that i should say there's like a spectrum here right so on one side you have an ai that like perfectly pursues your interest is a good fiduciary um but potentially subject to various guardrails or safeguards so like basically it does it just is trying to pursue your interests but like um either refuses to do a subset of things or maybe it will do whatever but there's some classifiers that block it from doing a subset of things and then on the other side you have like maybe on the other side of the spectrum that you could imagine”

“and going further than this you have like a human contractor where that human contractor is like generally trying to do their job they kind of they care about doing a good job but they also are like trying to be broadly ethical trying not to do things that are really fucked up and they're also like not wanting to be accomplices to crimes and so if there was some like really fucked up shit going on they would like whistle blow on it maybe they might refuse they might like sandbag a little bit who knows i think that if you imagine this spectrum it seems in some ways”