A government mandate that heavily punishes labs when their AI expresses takeover intentions or other harmful aims could prompt labs to train the AI to suppress those statements, potentially backfiring.

“uh there's some department that says if we catch you if we catch your ai saying that they want to take over or do something bad then you'll be really heavily punished your immediate response is alive to just be like okay let's train them away from saying this so you can imagine all kinds of ways in which a top-down mandate from the government again to the labs of uh safety would just really backfire and”