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Because AI capabilities are dual-use, preventing AI from assisting with activities considered antisocial or harmful would require restricting broad public access to many AI capabilities.

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

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“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.”
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