Dario Amodei

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Leaked memo from Dario Amodei > negotiations between Anthropic and the Department of War

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So I believe that the leaking of this memo specifically torpedoed a deal that might have been reached even after uh the Trump post, even after the HEG post.

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Dario Amodei > governance for AI technology

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It's not about any administration. It's not about any policy. It’s how should this technology be used in general. This is about, this is about going forward how should we think about the uses and the governance of this technology.

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Dario Amodei > fully autonomous weapons

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And so when we talked about fully autonomous weapons, I said there were two objections. The first one I said was reliability. The second one I said was what I would call oversight.

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AI Technology > centralized power concentration

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I think if we handle this wrongly you could have a situation where there's a very small number of people or one person who has their hand on the button. And we need to answer these questions because we don't want to make companies more powerful than the government.

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Dario Amodei > memo

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So, uh yeah, I I I want to completely apologize for this uh for this memo. So, I I want to make sure that people understand, right? Like like this was something written on Friday after the following three things had happened.

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Dario Amodei > Slack

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I think anthropic has an internal culture where I post a lot like some people describe this as a memo. I wouldn't describe it as that like I post things in Slack.

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AI technology > fully autonomous weapon systems use

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It's more that you think the technology is not ready for your models to be used fully autonomously. We didn't make these systems to be safe if you use them in that particular way. They're not suitable for this use case.

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Fully autonomous weapons > human-like operational norms

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And this is the idea that, you know, right now you have an army of human soldiers, and there are norms about serving in the military. What what are the norms of the of the AI driven drones?

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AI drone army > centralization of power risk

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What if you have an army of 10 million drones instead of, you know, 10 million human soldiers? What what are the norms of the of the AI driven drones? I think if we handled this wrongly, you could have a situation where there's a very small number of people or one person who has their hand on the button and kind of, you know, controls those 10 million drones.

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AI technology > both private companies and government

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We don't want to make companies more powerful than the government, but we also don't want to make government. So powerful that it that it can't be stopped. We have both problems at once.

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Dario Amodei > 20% unemployment in white collar jobs

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Anthropic CEO Amodi, who we're just talking about, he said a while ago that AI was likely to lead to roughly 20% unemployment in white collar jobs in the next year or two. So, that means we're talking in the next 12 to 18 months.