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A named use can be held even when the research cannot
The claim
A risky capability can be held back at a named use even when its research cannot be stopped: heritable human gene editing was banned and prosecuted after the first edited babies in 2018.
Outside check of Harari's 2014 forecast (ch20, 843) that no agency could limit an enhancement to approved uses: after the 2018 edited births, China convicted He Jiankui in 2019 for breaking a ban (BBC, call 2f21b5be). The research (CRISPR therapies) went on; the named use was held. For AI: governance that targets named deployments is enforceable where governance of capability research is not.
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could any law enforcement agency limit it to Alzheimer's patients and prevent healthy people from using it to acquire super-memories?
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