Dario Amodei

Seems very I mean, it's hard to predict things, but like it seems very logical that this would be true in the short run.

Now, in the longer run, maybe just the slightly longer run, robotics is advancing quickly.

And we shouldn't exclude that even without very powerful A.I.,

There are things being automated in the physical world.

You know, if you've seen a Waymo or a Tesla recently, I think we're not that far from the world of self-driving cars.

And then I think AI itself will accelerate it because if you have these really smart brains, one of the things they're going to be smart at is how do you design better robots and how do you operate better robots?

It was used to like plan and pilot the Mars rover.

And we've looked at like other robotics applications.

We're not the only company that's doing it.

You know, there are like different companies that are that are this is a general thing, not just something that we're doing.

But we have generally found that while the complexity is higher, piloting a robot is it's not different in kind than playing a video game.

It's different in complexity.

And we're starting to get to the point where we have that complexity.

Now, what is hard is the physical form of the robot handling the higher-stakes safety issues that happen with robots.

Like, you know, you don't want robots literally crushing people, right?

That's the, like, oldest... We're against that, yes.

Oldest sci-fi trope in the book is, like, the robot crushes you.

Or you don't want the robot nanny dropping the baby, breaking the dishes.

You know, there's a number of...

practical issues that will slow, you know, just like, you know, what you described in, you know, in the law and in human custom, that there are these kind of safety issues that will slow things down.