Capabilities research pushes the safety-usefulness frontier too, not just safety research
Original titleCapabilities research expands the safety-usefulness Pareto frontier too
AISummary
The post argues that counting all research as safety work because it widens the safety-usefulness Pareto frontier is misleading. Safety research typically creates new safety options without boosting usefulness, while capabilities research typically raises usefulness at safety's expense, so developers tend to choose less safe points.
Source: Redwood Research Blog · blog.redwoodresearch.org