Public AI assistants may be safer because their search and action space is heavily constrained
demian_ai · x · 2026-07-22
A quoted exchange points out a key tradeoff in today’s public AI assistants:
- The constraints that make assistants safe and broadly deployable also shrink their search and action space.
- The result, the post argues, is that these systems are often artificially capped, which in turn makes them look less capable than they might be in a more open setting.
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