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Chapter 1: What warning does the Anthropic CEO give about AI?
anthropic ceo comes out and says this okay says humanity needs to wake up to dangers of ai and i think what he's specifically talking about tom is super ai which i'm coming to you on this one uh but rob i think you got a clip on this humanity needs to wake up to the potentially catastrophic risks poses by powerful ai systems in the years to come is this him rob yes sir
And by the way, just so the audience knows, Anthropic is, how do you explain Anthropic, Tom? It's a $350 billion company. They just took an evaluation in a few months. Everybody wanted to get in on Anthropic. It's the next big thing that people are looking at. Here's what their CEO had to say. Go ahead.
You know, I think if we wait three years, like this technology is progressing exponentially, right? Three years ago in 2023, the models were maybe as smart as like a smart high school student.
Chapter 2: How is the technology of AI progressing exponentially?
Now we have engineers at Anthropic where the model writes all the code for them, you know, and the engineer maybe edits it. But we're very close to, you know, mid to high professional level, right? And so that was just in three years. If we wait another year... three years, I think we'll get what I call in the essay, our country of geniuses in the data center, maybe less than three years. And so.
You know, three years is an eternity in this field. And so I think we absolutely need to act before then. One place where I really have hope is I think as these problems start to manifest again, they're not going to be partisan. Right.
Chapter 3: What risks are associated with AI and bioterrorism?
Like, you know, it may start with, you know, one party or one side having an anti-regulatory ideology. But I think as these problems become real, there's going to be a demand among everyone.
And in the note, you outline the different risks, whether it's bioterror or whether it's authoritarian regimes with too many tools to do subversive behavior. Like how worried are you? I mean, you're obviously worried enough to state it and you're worried enough to raise it. But like in your mind, how likely is that outcome, particularly if we don't do anything for the next three years?
Is it like a 1% or like, no, no, if you don't do anything for three years, like we could be screwed.
Yeah, it's always hard to tell. One of the things I say in the essay is we just don't know, right? We could look back and we could say, ha-ha, AI-driven bioterror.
Chapter 4: How might AI influence job loss and societal stability?
That sounded like it could happen at the time, but it just didn't happen at all. And it's very unpredictable.
Tom, where are you at with this?
So... 2023, 2024 for AI, those were the years of the chip. NVIDIA comes out of nowhere. Everybody asking each other, do you own NVIDIA? Oh my gosh. And then the rest of us looking at it and saying, why is NVIDIA coming out of nowhere? So the number of chips is out there.
Chapter 5: What is the potential impact of AI on human purpose?
Then last year, the AI agent showed up as well as the collective realism that the data centers that are planned today are going to take 12% of the power in the U.S. And I said, wait a minute, wait a minute. 12% of the power? That means there must be a hell of a lot of processing and a hell of a lot of data centers. That's correct. That's absolutely correct.
And now we're getting, Pat, to the age of the AI agents. Well, the AI agent is basically AI that can do something for you. Automatically answering emails is a simple one that's available to everybody right now using Microsoft Pilot. Certain emails, certain rules that will automatically respond for you with a simple answer or find an open place on your calendar. That's an AI agent.
What he's talking about is the advance in the computational power and the library, also known as LLM, large language model, that it has to use that you could have a bad actor learns how to build a nuclear bomb bomb. much quicker or learns how to deploy a biotech poison much quicker.
And that what's happening is that now the agents and the collective intelligence behind the agent is sort of now the third, the fourth wave chip data center agents, and now collective processing power and super AI powering used for bad. Okay. You can look back in history and saying, Oh my gosh, The folks that invented the nuclear weapon, we need to regulate and control this.
We need to figure this out. We're about to go to what will be the next wave, which is levels of control through oversight. So if you think that Google listening on your device or your Alexa device to sell you ads is spooky, don't.
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Chapter 6: How do AI advancements relate to government surveillance?
The back end of AI is going to know who's looking for what, and the government is going to, by default, have to be snooping on that to see who's using AI to find out what is the best stream in America to put a viral poison in to kill the most number of people based on snowpack, runoff, melting, and the speed of the stream. People are going to be asking those questions.
Where's the best place for a suicide bomber to kill the maximum number of people in New York City on Black Friday? Oh, well, it'll look at traffic. So the government's going to have to see this, and that's what he's talking about. Now we get to the super AI and the ability of bad people to do really bad things and to be enabled by it.
Now you've got the government's going to have to be there on the back, which I'm not endorsing, but I'm saying that is what he at Anthropic, which is building these models and knows what they're talking about in terms of the power of them. Sorry for the long answer, but I wanted to take people through what they've been hearing in the last four years.
Brandon.
Yeah, say six years ago, could you have imagined what ChatGPT does right now?
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of AI's rapid evolution for society?
Even the concept of it, no. We all knew about AI, we knew about technology advancement, but just the sheer abilities of what ChatGPT or Grok or Gemini could do, never thought that could happen. So yeah, the craziest thing about it is the speed of technology, how it goes up at an exponential rate. So don't know what the hell is going to be around the corner.
Don't know if we're even going to have control over it, which that's the weird part is that it gets to the point where the thing starts communicating with each other. If you've heard a bunch of stories where Google or Amazon had to shut it down because they started talking to each other.
I don't know, just what happens when AI starts talking to each other and deems people inefficient or starts trying to have a mind or a philosophy of its own. I don't know how far away we are from that, but that's the creepy part to me. Right.
Chapter 8: How can society prepare for the challenges posed by AI?
Well, all technology kind of starts out clumsy, right? So I think it'll get better. When the people that make it are warning you, I think you should be listening to what they're saying. I just can't understand why, what's the danger? So I'm going to go read that because what would be the danger? Like, why do they think, what are they going to, AI going to become dangerous?
to where we just, we're the problem, we're the virus, so it eliminates us? Like, what's the possibility of AI becoming so super intelligent? I just, in my mind, I'm thinking, well, that just makes life easier. How's it gonna, what's it gonna do? Why is it dangerous? Yeah, let me tell you where I'm at with that.
If, let's just say, go to the horror that they're selling. Jobs are all going to be replaced. People are not going to have jobs. They're not going to have income. They're not going to be able to pay bills. Who are their customers? Who buys from them? Do you understand what I'm saying? Then who buys from them? By the way, what happens to mankind, what happens to any society,
When people don't make money, don't have anything to lose, don't have a job, don't have a family, who loses? Let me ask that question one more time. What happens to any society where people don't own homes, they don't have jobs, they're not having their dreams become a reality, they have nothing to lose? What does that society look like?
That's anarchy. If no one has anything to lose, you have the worst of human impulse and you have chaos.
Who loses?
Everybody.
You know who loses? The people of power. Right. That's who loses. So guess what? If they go in this direction where, you know, you lose your customers, you lose your employees, you lose your consumer, you lose your buyer, what the hell are you producing? Who cares what you're producing?
You heard the story about Amazon that came out and they're shutting down their, what was it, 21, 23 cashless, cashier-less stores in California.
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