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by skybrian 3117 days ago
Presumably by getting people to take a drug with unexpected side effects? That doesn't seem particularly likely, but I don't think it's wrong to be paranoid about this. Defense in depth. Don't give the researcher the means to take arbitrary actions, and don't give it general reasoning ability.

Protecting against narrow AI will keep us plenty busy. Consider a narrow-AI penetration tester that falls into the wrong hands. Protecting against that sort of threat also helps protect against general AI threats.