Dario Amodei
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard 12 Jun
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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?
Her reply is, I'd ask them, how did you do it?
How did you evolve, how did you survive this technological adolescence without destroying yourself?
When I think about where humanity is now with AI, about what we're on the cusp of, my mind keeps going back to that scene because the question is so apt for our current situation, and I wish we had the alien's answer to guide us.
I believe we are entering a rite of passage, both turbulent and inevitable, which will test who we are as a species.
Humanity is about to be handed almost unimaginable power, and it is deeply unclear whether our social, political, and technological systems possess the maturity to wield it.
In my essay Machines of Loving Grace, I tried to lay out the dream of a civilization that had made it through to adulthood, where the risks had been addressed and powerful AI was applied with skill and compassion to raise the quality of life for everyone.
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