I agree that this seems like a grouping of concepts around ‘defensive empowerment’ which feels like it gets at a useful way to think about reality. However, I don’t know offhand of research groups with this general focus on the subject. I think mostly people focusing on any of these subareas have focused just on their specific specialty (e.g. cyberdefense or biological defense), or an even more specific subarea than that.
I think one of the risks here is that a general agent able to help with this wide a set of things would almost certainly be capable of a lot of scary dual-use capabilities. That adds complications to how to pursue the general subject in a safe and beneficial way.
I agree that this seems like a grouping of concepts around ‘defensive empowerment’ which feels like it gets at a useful way to think about reality. However, I don’t know offhand of research groups with this general focus on the subject. I think mostly people focusing on any of these subareas have focused just on their specific specialty (e.g. cyberdefense or biological defense), or an even more specific subarea than that.
I think one of the risks here is that a general agent able to help with this wide a set of things would almost certainly be capable of a lot of scary dual-use capabilities. That adds complications to how to pursue the general subject in a safe and beneficial way.