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Anthropic's founding bet, as reported: AI is dangerous, so only the careful should build it. Shared oversight was the objection from the start.
The claim
As the New York Times reports it, Dario Amodei's founding conviction joined two ideas: AI could be extremely dangerous, and only he and like-minded technologists should be trusted to build it. The objection was raised early: in 2018 an OpenAI researcher argued that oversight of AI should be shared among people with differing viewpoints.
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Achiam pointed to the Amodei siblings’ growing power and argued that oversight of AI should be shared among people with differing viewpoints.
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Friends and colleagues say that in Dario, these two schools of thought merged into a firm conviction: AI could be extremely dangerous, and only he and like-minded technologists should be entrusted with developing it.
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