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The speaker warns that naive oversight recommendations or mandates might worsen optimization pressure on AI systems and encourage companies to conceal problems rather than address them.

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“it might just like, there might be ways in which they,”
“a naive approach to giving recommendations or oversight might push companies towards like, it's just quite subtle to think about the optimization pressure applying in AIs and like naive mandates or whatever might just like make the optimization pressure worse,”
“like do the papering over thing you're talking about.”
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