TechCrunch Host
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 17 Aug
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Put another way, he said promising that AI will cure cancer is more a cliche than it is inspiring.
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What would actually change people's opinions of AI is
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Would be actually curing cancer.
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Now, as for regulation, Amade argued that Baker was painting a false choice between distributing AI widely without regulation or concentrating the technology in the hands of a few companies through regulation.
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He said
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I know that there's a sort of Silicon Valley shorthand where regulation equals regulatory capture equals concentration of power, but I've always found this to be an overly simplified picture of the world.
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Many people outside this bubble think of regulation as something that constrains corporate power and benefits ordinary people.
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Amade added that he doesn't necessarily agree with that perspective either, but he said that's why Anthropic has always made its policy proposals very carefully.
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He said, We try very hard to make proposals that disadvantage or slow down frontier AI companies while advantaging smaller competitors.
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Why make those proposals at all?
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Amade said that in his view, AI is structurally a technology that tends to concentrate power, and that open weights do help some with this, but are nowhere near a sufficient solution because they simply shift the concentration somewhat to those with the most compute and chip.
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By contrast, he thinks the right rules of the road can simultaneously address AI's cyber bioalignment risks, B institutionally constrain the power of the frontier AI companies, and C leave room for open weights models while also addressing the specific risks that they bring.
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Well, a woman identified as Jane Doe Four has joined a lawsuit filed by three Tennessee teenagers against Elon Musk's XAI over the role the company's chatbot Grok allegedly played in creating child sexual abuse material.
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According to a report in the Washington Post, the woman alleged that her stepfather used Grok to manipulate a photo taken when she was eleven years old to create more than seven thousand explicit images of her.
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The woman also said that her stepfather was found dead of suicide two days after the images were uncovered in a law enforcement raid.
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Limitless access to these tools is spreading so quickly, it is taking everyday life and turning it into child sexual abuse.
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The teenagers who filed the lawsuit accused XAI, now part of SpaceX, of failing to take basic precautions to prevent Grok from being used to create explicit images of real
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including minors, and they are seeking class action status
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their suit.
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