Security principle: AI capability must never automatically confer authority
Ghost_Pilot_MD · x · 2026-10-09
GhostPilotMD lays out an AI safety principle: capability must never automatically confer authority. AI permissions must be explicitly delegated, bounded, and revocable — being able to do something is not permission to do it. The author argues that if the world follows this, catastrophic risk ("P(bloom)") decreases.
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