Dario Amodei

If I look at an area like biology, and I wrote this essay, Machines of Loving Grace, it seems to me that humans are struggling to understand the complexity of biology, right? If you go to Stanford or to Harvard or to Berkeley, you have whole departments Of, you know, folks trying to study, you know, like the immune system or metabolic pathways and and each person understands only a tiny bit.

Part of it specializes and they're struggling to combine their knowledge with that of with that of other humans. And so I have an instinct that there's there's a lot of room at the top for A.I. to get smarter.

Part of it specializes and they're struggling to combine their knowledge with that of with that of other humans. And so I have an instinct that there's there's a lot of room at the top for A.I. to get smarter.

Part of it specializes and they're struggling to combine their knowledge with that of with that of other humans. And so I have an instinct that there's there's a lot of room at the top for A.I. to get smarter.

if I think of something like materials in the physical world or, you know, like addressing, you know, conflicts between humans or something like that, I mean, you know, it may be there's only some of these problems are not intractable, but much harder. And it may be that there's only so well you can do with some of these things, right?

if I think of something like materials in the physical world or, you know, like addressing, you know, conflicts between humans or something like that, I mean, you know, it may be there's only some of these problems are not intractable, but much harder. And it may be that there's only so well you can do with some of these things, right?

if I think of something like materials in the physical world or, you know, like addressing, you know, conflicts between humans or something like that, I mean, you know, it may be there's only some of these problems are not intractable, but much harder. And it may be that there's only so well you can do with some of these things, right?

Just like with speech recognition, there's only so clear I can hear your speech. So I think In some areas, there may be ceilings that are very close to what humans have done. In other areas, those ceilings may be very far away. And I think we'll only find out when we build these systems. It's very hard to know in advance. We can speculate, but we can't be sure.

Just like with speech recognition, there's only so clear I can hear your speech. So I think In some areas, there may be ceilings that are very close to what humans have done. In other areas, those ceilings may be very far away. And I think we'll only find out when we build these systems. It's very hard to know in advance. We can speculate, but we can't be sure.

Just like with speech recognition, there's only so clear I can hear your speech. So I think In some areas, there may be ceilings that are very close to what humans have done. In other areas, those ceilings may be very far away. And I think we'll only find out when we build these systems. It's very hard to know in advance. We can speculate, but we can't be sure.

Yeah. I think in many cases, you know, in theory, technology could change very fast. For example, all the things that we might invent with respect to biology are But remember, there's a clinical trial system that we have to go through to actually administer these things to humans.

Yeah. I think in many cases, you know, in theory, technology could change very fast. For example, all the things that we might invent with respect to biology are But remember, there's a clinical trial system that we have to go through to actually administer these things to humans.

Yeah. I think in many cases, you know, in theory, technology could change very fast. For example, all the things that we might invent with respect to biology are But remember, there's a clinical trial system that we have to go through to actually administer these things to humans.

I think that's a mixture of things that are unnecessary and bureaucratic and things that kind of protect the integrity of society. And the whole challenge is that it's hard to tell. It's hard to tell what's going on. It's hard to tell which is which, right? My view is definitely... I think in terms of drug development, my view is that we're too slow and we're too conservative.

I think that's a mixture of things that are unnecessary and bureaucratic and things that kind of protect the integrity of society. And the whole challenge is that it's hard to tell. It's hard to tell what's going on. It's hard to tell which is which, right? My view is definitely... I think in terms of drug development, my view is that we're too slow and we're too conservative.

I think that's a mixture of things that are unnecessary and bureaucratic and things that kind of protect the integrity of society. And the whole challenge is that it's hard to tell. It's hard to tell what's going on. It's hard to tell which is which, right? My view is definitely... I think in terms of drug development, my view is that we're too slow and we're too conservative.

But certainly, if you get these things wrong, it's possible to risk people's lives by being too reckless. And so at least some of these human institutions are, in fact, protecting people. So it's all about finding the balance. I strongly suspect that balance is kind of more on the side of pushing to make things happen faster, but there is a balance. If we do hit a limit—

But certainly, if you get these things wrong, it's possible to risk people's lives by being too reckless. And so at least some of these human institutions are, in fact, protecting people. So it's all about finding the balance. I strongly suspect that balance is kind of more on the side of pushing to make things happen faster, but there is a balance. If we do hit a limit—

But certainly, if you get these things wrong, it's possible to risk people's lives by being too reckless. And so at least some of these human institutions are, in fact, protecting people. So it's all about finding the balance. I strongly suspect that balance is kind of more on the side of pushing to make things happen faster, but there is a balance. If we do hit a limit—

Idea limited? So a few things. Now we're talking about hitting the limit before we get to the level of humans and the skill of humans. So I think one that's popular today and I think could be a limit that we run into, like most of the limits, I would bet against it, but it's definitely possible, is we simply run out of data. There's only so much data on the internet.