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An expert can use their prompts, reference materials, and memory system to shape an AI model into a domain-specific persona and activate its knowledge coherently in that domain.
Tim Scarfe · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sept 2026
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“you kind of ground a perspective.”
“So every single word you say, all of the reference material,”
“all of your memory system and so on, what you do is you kind of carve a persona out of that model.”
“model and and you activate the knowledge in a coherent way in that particular domain and the beauty of it is is that many many other people in different domains can do that and you get this kind of i think it's an illusion that the model has this general capability but i think the models can be carved to be specialized experts in any domain but they it's a latent capability rather than an explicit capability does that make sense”Play from 41:51Report a misattribution
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