Dario Amodei

They want the best for you.

They want you to listen to them, but they don't want to take away your freedom and your agency and take over your life.

You know, they're

In a way, they're watching over you, but you still have your freedom and your will.

It's actually, you know, that poem is interesting because it's interpretable in several different ways, right?

Some people say it's actually ironic that, you know, he says it's not going to happen quite that way.

That's one interpretation.

Some people would have your interpretation, which is,

It's meant literally, but maybe it's not a good thing.

But you could also interpret it as, you know, it's a return to nature.

It's a return to the core of what human, you know, we're not being animalized.

We're being, you know, we're being kind of reconnected with the world.

So, you know, I was aware of that ambiguity and, you know, because I've always been talking about the positive side and the negative side.

So, you know, I actually think

that may be a tension that we may face, which is that the positive world and the negative world, in their early stages, maybe even in their middle stages, maybe even in their fairly late stages, I wonder if the distance between the good ending and some of the subtle bad endings is...

relatively small if it's a if it's a very subtle thing like we've put very subtle made very subtle changes like if you eat a particular fruit from a tree in a garden or not right like hypothetically very small thing yeah big divergence yeah yeah i i guess this i guess this always comes back to uh you know there's some fundamental questions here yes yeah

It seems worth reading, even if just for understanding what Anthropic is likely to do in the future.

Heading Confronting and overcoming the risks of powerful AI

There is a scene in the movie version of Carl Sagan's book Contact where the main character, an astronomer who has detected the first radio signal from an alien civilization, is being considered for the role of humanity's representative to meet the aliens.

The international panel interviewing her asks, if you could ask, the aliens, just one question, what would it be?