Neil Freiman
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19,721 appearances
110 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 6d ago
Neil Freiman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In a blog post on Saturday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amadei called for slowing down progress on the most cutting edge models, warning that a swarm of AI agents could take over the internet in as little as half a year.
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He wrote, over the last few months, I've become convinced that fully addressing the risk requires even more prudence,
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Not just investing in risk prevention, but pacing the rate of capabilities advancement so that risk prevention has time to keep up.
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We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models.
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Other leading figures, Sam Altman of OpenAI and Elon Musk of SpaceX, responded to Amadei's post that they agree on the need to slow down.
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Alvin even went one step further, telling Fortune he was going to put the company's much-hyped IPO on ice, at least for this year.
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He said, I actually think that, given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public.
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Though experts have been warning us for years, concerns over AI safety hit a fever pitch last week when an anthropic employee quarantined.
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saying these AI companies were, quote, gambling with people's lives, other insiders chimed in with doomsday predictions, putting the odds of AI wiping out humanity at over 10% within a decade.
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And while many agree with this prognosis, there is a sizable contingent who accuse AI companies of fear-mongering in order to invite regulation that stifles competition and entrenches their position as industry leaders.
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Toby, just a head-spinning week, a head-spinning 48 hours with Dario's call to take a deep breath and slow things down.
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But if I was Musk, Altman, or Amadei, I would say I actually was warning about AI safety, AI doomsday, AI dangers before I even had trillion dollar companies.
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And this is what they were pointing out over the weekend.
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Elon Musk pointed to a tweet he sent in 2014.
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which read, worth reading Superintelligence by Bostrom.
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That's Nick Bostrom, a philosopher.
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We need to be super careful with AI, potentially more dangerous than nukes.
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That was 2014.
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In 2015, Sam Altman wrote a blog post saying, development of superhuman machine intelligence is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity.
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And Dario Amadei has been sounding this alarm for years.
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