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• @teddyschleifer Teddy Schleifer on x

  “It is sad to me that many wealthy individuals (especially in the tech industry) have recently adopted a cynical and nihilistic attitude that philanthropy is inevitably fraudulent or useless.” https://www.darioamodei.com/ ...

• @avitalbalwit Avital Balwit on x

  “The years in front of us will be impossibly hard, asking more of us than we think we can give. But in my time as a researcher, leader, and citizen, I have seen enough courage and nobility to believe that we can win—that when put in the darkest circumstances, humanity has a way

• @darioamodei Dario Amodei on x

  I've been working on this essay for a while, and it is mainly about AI and about the future. But given the horror we're seeing in Minnesota, its emphasis on the importance of preserving democratic values and rights at home is particularly relevant.

• @darioamodei Dario Amodei on x

  It's a companion to Machines of Loving Grace, an essay I wrote over a year ago, which focused on what powerful AI could achieve if we get it right: https://www.darioamodei.com/ ...

• @darioamodei Dario Amodei on x

  The Adolescence of Technology: an essay on the risks posed by powerful AI to national security, economies and democracy—and how we can defend against them: https://www.darioamodei.com/ ...

• @s_oheigeartaigh @s_oheigeartaigh on x

  Zoomed out, the likelihood this claim is true and to what degree is the most important question in the world. It should be what many of us are discussing more than anything else. “Because AI is now writing much of the code at Anthropic, it is already substantially accelerating

• @tbpn @tbpn on x

  JUST IN: Dario drops new essay, sending his competitor's cortisol to the MOON 😭 [image]

• @intelligibabble Leland Richardson on x

  This is a long read, but i hope many people take the time to read and digest, whether you are someone who currently uses a lot of AI or not. I am very excited about AI, but believe it is critical that society takes seriously and internalizes the risks discussed here.

• @maxwellcyoung Maxwell Young on x

  A cool and bracing look into our future. Also, more of a meta comment, but - how cool is it to work for a company where the CEO actually (personally) writes stuff like this.

• @trq212 @trq212 on x

  worth reading in its entirety AI is incredibly powerful and not slowing down, there are many dangers ahead and it is natural to feel anxious, scared or angry but we can win [image]

• @andrewcurran_ Andrew Curran on x

  Great stuff, it is definitely worth reading the entire thing. 'The years in front of us will be impossibly hard, asking more of us than we think we can give. But in my time as a researcher, leader, and citizen, I have seen enough courage and nobility to believe that we can

• @andrewcurran_ Andrew Curran on x

  Some heavy truths, I agree with this completely and have said similar things many times. 'Furthermore, the last few years should make clear that the idea of stopping or even substantially slowing the technology is fundamentally untenable. The formula for building powerful AI

• r/singularity r on reddit

  Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technology

• @scaling01 @scaling01 on x

  Dario is posting about the permanent underclass and you are laughing [image]

• @dbreunig Drew Breunig on x

  Anthropic comms is crazy. “Here's a 38-page essay about the existential threat of AI and how underprepared we are.” *30 min later* “Also you can now connect your B2B SaaS apps to Claude.” [image]

• @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on bluesky

  “Humanity is about to be handed almost unimaginable power, and it is deeply unclear whether our social, political, and technological systems possess the maturity to wield it.”  - Anthropic's CEO  —  If generative AI matched they hype then I'd agree with him.  Using LLMs as if the…

• @seldo.com Laurie Voss on bluesky

  I don't know about you but whenever I see somebody write a 38-page essay about anything I assume they are having a psychotic break.  [embedded post]

• @fleetingbits @fleetingbits on bluesky

  some thoughts on dario's essay  —  1) there's nothing new here if you're familiar with the ai safety discussions that have been happening on twitter