A CEO whose company says its AI products are tools “that people can rely on” warned senators yesterday that AI is much closer than anticipated to overtaking human intelligence and even helping to produce weapons of mass destruction.
Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, cited the need to reduce AI’s short-term risks of bias as well as longer-term risks to humanity. He told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee yesterday that the medium term poses the most “alarming combination of imminence and severity”—including the possibility that malign actors could harness AI to make it easier to produce biological weapons.
Amodei, whose AI company ...
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