Musk calls for stopping gain-of-function research and hiding dangerous-capability evals
elonmusk · x · 2026-07-26
Elon Musk argues that gain-of-function research should stop and that publicizing dangerous-capability evals creates the wrong incentives, because measurable benchmarks encourage optimization.
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