Robert Wright
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595 appearances
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
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I I I call him Dario as if I knew him, just so that I'll know I'm pronouncing it right.
How does he pronounce his his last name?
I believe it's Amade.
Amade.
Um
Who is a highly regarded figure in AI, uh, not just because he found an Anthropic, which which produces a great LLM called Claude, which I use, um, but because of his past role at Open AI in developing the G the whole GPT technology.
Um, you know, he he's he's very highly regarded.
And he had published this essay, I don't know, uh a couple of months ago now, I guess, called Machines of Loving Grace.
15,000 words.
A lot of it was just laying out possible positive scenarios about the future use of AI.
He had previously, I think, been thought of by some as kind of a negative guy, so concerned about risk.
And so I think maybe he wanted to get out there.
There, uh, you know, the fact that he's not blind to all the possible upsides if we avoid the catastrophic risks.
But a part of the essay that didn't get nearly as much attention, I'm sure it got some in your circles.
But for example, Lex Friedman did a like a seven thousand hour conversation with him.
Sorry, didn't bring it up, even though it didn't even though it focused on the essay.
And that was a part where what we would call in journalism the actual story from that document, like here's the news, where he lays out, I think more than he ever did, his foreign policy ideology as it applies to AI.
And I would say
Broadly speaking, he first of all signed on to a framing uh of US foreign policy that's common in in the foreign policy establishment, certainly in the Biden administration, which is that the US and other democracies are involved in an existential war with authoritarian or autocratic countries.
I'm kinda I'm down on that framing myself, I should say, partly because I think it it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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