Vitalik says restricting AI capabilities by use case is better than restricting them by user identity
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Vitalik believes that restricting AI capabilities by use case is more acceptable than restricting them by user identity, and called for early prevention of cyberattack risks.
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【Vitalik: Restricting capabilities by use case AI is better than restricting them by user identity】
Vitalik posted on X that he considers it acceptable for Kimi 3.1 to intentionally exclude advanced offensive cyber capabilities from its training data. Compared with treating users differently based on their identity, treating them differently based on use case is far less negative; before powerful cyberattacks arrive at scale, society needs time to prepare, harden systems, inspect legacy code, and formally verify new code. Vitalik also said that if society fails to properly address this first wave of major AI risks, it may move toward highly restricted models and a situation involving widespread implementation of KYC and surveillance, with users divided into different tiers based on their credentials and nationality and granted different levels of model access.
Key points
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Vitalik posted on X that he considers it acceptable for Kimi 3.1 to intentionally exclude advanced offensive cyber capabilities from its training data.
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Vitalik said that treating users differently based on use case is far less negative than treating them differently based on their identity.
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Vitalik said that before powerful cyberattacks arrive at scale, society needs time to prepare, harden systems, inspect legacy code, and formally verify new code.
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Vitalik said that if society fails to properly address the first wave of major AI risks, it may move toward highly restricted models and a situation involving widespread implementation of KYC and surveillance.
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Vitalik said that users may then be divided into different tiers based on their credentials and nationality and granted different levels of model access.
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Vitalik advocates limiting capabilities based on AI what they are used for, rather than deciding permissions based on who the user is. He believes society should use the time before risks fully emerge to strengthen system and code security.
Why it matters to readers
This view concerns AI capability restrictions, cybersecurity preparedness, and how user access rights are allocated, while also warning that mishandling the response could bring stricter identity checks and surveillance.
Newcomers can focus on the distinction between two governance approaches: one limits dangerous uses, while the other assigns different permissions according to user identity, credentials, or nationality.
Risks and unknowns
The evidence is a retelling by a Telegram channel and does not provide a link to Vitalik's original X post or the complete original text.
The evidence does not specify which capabilities Kimi 3.1 specifically excluded, nor does it provide implementation details.
The content concerning future model restrictions,KYC, surveillance, and tiered access describes possible scenarios expressed by Vitalik, not facts that have already occurred.
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