Opinion: A model trained to be safe will never be bold enough to be useful
PierceLilholt · x · 2026-08-24
A short take on the safety-usefulness tradeoff: the author argues that a model trained to be safe will never be bold enough to be genuinely useful — a common criticism in AI circles that excessive safety guardrails squeeze out model capability.
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