AI Safety: Vitalik Endorses Selective Capability Restrictions
Vitalik Buterin said he's okay with Kimi 3.1 deliberately excluding offensive cyber capabilities from training, making the case that restricting use cases is far less harmful than restricting users.
What we know
@VitalikButerin weighed in on AI capability governance: 'Discriminating against use cases is MUCH less bad than discriminating against users. And the world does need all the time it can get to prepare, harden, check old [systems].' This aligns with an account on X's adjacent interest in compute limits and biology. Another account on X also RT'd a bullish take on crypto's preparedness for the AI/quantum threat versus the broader internet.
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“Discriminating against use cases is MUCH less bad than discriminating against users”
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