Anthropic CEO bloviates for 20,000+ words in thinly veiled plea against regulation

Opinion Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has published a novella-length essay about the risk of superintelligent AI, something that doesn't yet exist.

It's as good an advertisement as any for the summarization capabilities of the company's Claude model family as you can find.

tl;dr AI presents a serious risk and intervention is required to prevent disaster, though not so much that the regulations spoil the party. Go team.

The AI threat has been a talking point among tech cognoscenti for more than a decade, and longer than that if you count sci-fi alarmism. Rewind to 2014 when Elon Musk warned: "With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon."

You can measure Musk's concern by his investment in xAI.

AI luminary Geoffrey Hinton offered a more convincing example of concern through his resignation from Google and the doubts he expressed about his life's work in machine ...