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Capabilities research expands the safety-usefulness Pareto frontier too.

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A LessWrong post argues that capabilities research also expands the safety-usefulness Pareto frontier, challenging the idea that safety research is defined by improving safety without raising cost or reducing usefulness.

Why it matters: It reframes how the boundary between safety and capability research is drawn.

Written by AI from LessWrong's published text.

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“It’s tempting to define safety research as research that enables developers to deploy an AI system more safely without making the deployment much more expensive or much less useful.”
LessWrong, 02 Oct 2026, 17:54.

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