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Anthropic CEO Dario Amade recently pushed back against the idea that he's been painting an overly pessimistic picture of artificial intelligence and how it might shape the future.
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Amade's comments came in response to investor Gavin Baker, who argued, both on the All In podcast and on social media, that Amade's warnings about the dangers of AI have helped to fuel a backlash in the US, particularly against data centers, claiming that Amade has lost the argument when it comes to AI regulation.
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Anthropic has advocated for some regulations, including a California bill that imposes transparency requirements on large AI companies.
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And given that he is about to be the CEO of one of the most important companies in the world, Baker wrote, I respectfully think he should make an effort to be a more positive advocate for his own industry.
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Now Baker is far from the only one arguing that AI skepticism is
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And even government crackdowns are a natural response to the dire warnings of some AI executives.
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But in a series of posts, Amade disagreed with the idea that his messaging has been disproportionately negative.
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Instead, he said that his writing has been about equally balanced between risks and benefits, and that he wrote his essay Machines of Loving Grace.
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Because he didn't feel the AI industry was painting an inspiring enough picture of how the technology could radically transform the world for the better.
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Nonetheless, Amade acknowledged that the public has a negative view of AI, and he agreed that this is a big problem.
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Where he disagreed was with the idea that this negativity is primarily caused by Amade or any other AI leader warning about AI's risks.
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Amade said, I think it is fundamentally a crisis of trust.
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I think that ordinary people don't trust companies, governments, or the tech industry, and always suspect that we are cooking up some new way to screw them over.
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Indeed, trust is a word that often comes up in headlines about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and is apparently an issue for other AI CEOs like Amade as well.
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Now, in Amade's telling, however, this is a crisis that spent decades in the making, with the AI backlash, just the latest iteration of it.
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I think by far the most accurate criticism of AI companies, including Anthropic, is that we haven't yet delivered on our big promises to benefit the world.
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That is totally on us.
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And I think it's the criticism you should be making, instead of all this stuff about messaging and marketing.
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