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Dangerous Capability Must Be Fixed Before Deployment

If red-teaming or external testing discovers a dangerous latent capability such as helping a layperson build a pandemic-class bioweapon, mitigations could include a different constitution, additional guardrails, more RLHF, or removing training data, but the first requirement is detecting it ahead of time via the right evaluations, and the capability must be fixed before general deployment.

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Speaker

Demis Hassabis

Evidence Quote

it would need to be fixed before it was deployed generally, for sure, if that was an exposure surface.

Source

Demis Hassabis — Scaling, superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, AlphaFoldDwarkesh Patel Podcast
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:35:13 AM

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