“Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace” by Matrice Jacobine

This is a link post. I think and talk a lot about the risks of powerful AI. The company I’m the CEO of, Anthropic, does a lot of research on how to reduce these risks. Because of this, people sometimes draw the conclusion that I’m a pessimist or “doomer” who thinks AI will be mostly bad or dangerous. I don’t think that at all. In fact, one of my main reasons for focusing on risks is that they’re the only thing standing between us and what I see as a fundamentally positive future. I think that most people are underestimating just how radical the upside of AI could be, just as I think most people are underestimating how bad the risks could be. In this essay I try to sketch out what that upside might look like—what a world with powerful AI might look like if everything goes right. Of [...] --- First published: October 11th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/h22mEkh9o5vCQE8Ti/dario-amodei-machines-of-loving-grace --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.