Dario Amodei · White House · Claude Code · Anthropic · Microsoft · AI Agent · The Atlantic Technology
In April, OpenAI published a 13-page blueprint on “Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age” with the quaint subheading: “Ideas
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Near the end of the piece, Amodei imagines a scenario in which AI has rendered the current economic system irrelevant.
Key facts
- On X, the writer Noah Smith posed the question more bluntly: “In 20 or 50 years, will the heads of AI companies be de facto emperors of the world
- It all moves so fast that veterans of the AI discourse jokingly yearn for the good old days … of 2022
- It’s now has an account value of $70,614.59.” The post includes a graph with a small asterisk that notes that this trading was part of a trading simulation and not done with real money
- A new prompt seminar “WILL CHANGE HOW YOU BUILD WITH AI FOREVER”; no, wait, prompting is dead
Summary
You hear wild stuff all the time now. Like this story that Nat Friedman, a former CEO of GitHub, told recently at a conference. Friedman uses OpenClaw, an autonomous AI agent that runs on his computer, acting like a personal assistant. The world is only a few years into the AI boom, and this strange brew of hype, utility, and creepiness is commonplace. The team gave Claude Opus 4.6 by $10k to trade on. A defining feature of all this evangelizing is its frenetic pace. A new prompt seminar “WILL CHANGE HOW YOU BUILD WITH AI FOREVER”; no, wait, prompting is dead. It all moves so fast that veterans of the AI discourse jokingly yearn for the good old days … of 2022. The reporter has written previously that one of AI’s enduring cultural impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing their mind. But lately, the reporter believe, it’s the accelerated nature of the AI boom that’s driving people everywhere mad.