Dario Amodei · Sam Altman · Anthropic · Demis Hassabis · OpenAI · Donald Trump · The Guardian Technology
On Wednesday, a former Anthropic employee had warned that AI could precipitate human extinction by 2030
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Asked to comment on his former employee’s view, Amodei said: “I agree with Jacob much more than I disagree with him … I think there’s some chance that things go wrong but it’s not all that high.” “I am not a doomer about this,” he told CNN.
Key facts
- On Wednesday, a former Anthropic employee had warned that AI could precipitate human extinction by 2030
- Sam Altman and Elon Musk have backed a call from the head of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, to “slow the pace” of AI development after he warned that an AI swarm could otherwise become capable of “taking
- He said: “I’ve been sounding the alarm on AI for a long time,” and referred to a 2014 post where he said: “The team need to be super careful with AI
- He also said OpenAI would not go public in 2026, citing safety concerns over artificial intelligence
Summary
Sam Altman and Elon Musk have backed a call from the head of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, to “slow the pace” of AI development after he warned that an AI swarm could otherwise become capable of “taking over the entire internet” within a year. In a rare show of unity, the rival technology leaders threw their weight behind the appeal from the founder and chief executive of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, which came after a series of warnings from AI researchers last week. But the US president, Donald Trump, on a visit to his golf course in Ireland, played down the warnings and said “negative forces” were “bringing up things that won’t happen”. “We’re leading China in AI,” he said. Amodei laid out his thoughts on “why the AI industry should slow down”, in an essay with a three-part plan for doing so, starting with giving independent monitors constant access to developers’ research processes.