The spat between America’s government and Anthropic has some alarming implications. In AI development, it appears speed is being prioritised over safety. Artificial intelligence could not only give bad actors the capabilities to unleash destruction, evidence is building that the models themselves are becoming more capable of deceit. Is a catastrophe imminent?
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Watch Zanny Minton Beddoes, The Economist's editor-in-chief, interview Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s boss, on “The Insider”.
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