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SPEAKER_01 says an apparatus made entirely of compliant fiduciary AIs could enable powerful actors to pursue power through actions that are illegal, highly illegitimate, or objectionable by ordinary standards despite being neither illegal nor illegitimate.
Ryan Greenblatt · Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? · 11 Aug 2026
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“Whereas if your whole apparatus is built entirely out of these sort of good fiduciary AIs, then you might be in trouble where basically there are potentially ways of seeking power that are not like that. Well, either they're illegal,”
“but you're not you can ask your AIs for how to commit crimes or they're not illegal,”
“but are highly illegitimate or even worse, they're not illegal and not illegitimate, but obviously sort of bad from sort of a normal perspective. And I think that these.”1:07:21Report a misattribution
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