Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei:
— Having 4 or 5 AI companies just doing what they want doesn’t seem like it will lead to a good outcome.
— At some point government will have to intervene.
— Things could change “really fast”. pic.twitter.com/mPcMNFjlVf— ControlAI (@ai_ctrl) September 6, 2024
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei:
— We have no way to predict whether a human, let alone an AI system, will be good or evil.
— We know much less about AI than we do about humans.
— We’re deploying AI systems that are alien, they make mistakes we don’t understand. pic.twitter.com/P3vUY0fkJU— ControlAI (@ai_ctrl) September 5, 2024
Erik Torenberg and Noah Smith are joined by Dario Amodei, CEO and Co-founder of Anthropic. Dario talks about the economics of AI development, the comparative advantage of AI companies like Anthropic, AI safety, and his stance on California’s SB 1047 bill. They also discuss the impacts of AI on global power dynamics, competition between the US and China, and inequality in an AI-powered world.
TIMESTAMPS: (00:00) Intro (04:23) Dario’s intellectual evolution (06:37) Is Google the Bell Labs of Al? (10:07) Economic moats in Al (12:35) Scaling hypothesis and Al’s future (17:05) National security and Al (19:04) Leopold Aschenbrenner’s essay (20:33) Al’s impact on business models (26:30) Noah’s big thesis (29:32) Sponsors: Babbel | Brave (31:58) Al arms races? (36:17) Al’s impact on labor and skill distribution (40:41) Sponsor: Squad (44:35) Future of Al and a hyperscaling world (41:42) A vision of radical abundance (49:55) Al safety and inequality (54:06) The SB 1047 debate (58:56) Rabbit alignment problem (01:01:25) Wrap
