Capability Scoping

TagLast edit: Jun 12, 2025, 2:27 AM by Bruce W. Lee

Capability Scoping refers to deliberately defining and limiting the range of tasks an AI system can perform. Rather than trying to control all possible behaviors, capability scoping focuses on establishing clear boundaries around what the system cannot or should not do.

Distillation Robustifies Unlearning

Bruce W. Lee, Addie Foote, alexinf, leni, Jacob G-W, Harish Kamath, Bryce Woodworth, cloud and TurnTrout

Jun 13, 2025, 1:45 PM

232 points

43 comments8 min readLW link

(arxiv.org)

Unlearning Needs to be More Selective [Progress Report]

Filip Sondej, Yushi Yang and Marcel Windys

Jun 27, 2025, 4:38 PM

24 points

6 comments3 min readLW link

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Ca­pa­bil­ity Scoping

Distil­la­tion Ro­bus­tifies Unlearning

Un­learn­ing Needs to be More Selec­tive [Progress Re­port]

Capability Scoping

Distillation Robustifies Unlearning

Unlearning Needs to be More Selective [Progress Report]