A call to stop public dangerous-capability evals before they become a race
willdepue · x · 2026-07-26
- The post calls for a serious discussion about stopping gain-of-function research and making dangerous-capability evals public.
- The argument is that public evals create a harmful "number go up" incentive, because measurable capabilities get optimized faster.
- The implicit recommendation is to keep some capability evaluations private to reduce misuse and benchmark gaming.
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