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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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Demis HassabisEvidence Quote
“it would need to be fixed before it was deployed generally, for sure, if that was an exposure surface.”
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Demis Hassabis — Scaling, superhuman AIs, AlphaZero atop LLMs, AlphaFold— Dwarkesh Patel PodcastCreated: 6/13/2026, 3:35:13 AM
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