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I often use what I’ll call the “safety-usefulness tradeoff model”, which is: developers face a tradeoff between "safety" and "usefulness" of an AI de…

x Efficient tradeoffs and the safety-usefulness tradeoff model — LessWrong AI Frontpage 42 Efficient tradeoffs and the safety-usefulness tradeoff model by Buck 8th Jun 2026 AI Alignment Forum 9 min read 1 42 Ω 22 I often use what I’ll call the “safety-usefulness tradeoff model”, which is: developers face a tradeoff between "safety" and "usefulness" of an AI deployment, and the developer has only limited willingness or ability to sacrifice usefulness for the sake of safety. This model assumes that developers choose whether to take safety-relevant actions based on their cost efficiency, i.e., th

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