Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has partially agreed with the notion that artificial intelligence (AI) could “kill humans”, but added that if the right path is taken, the chance of something going wrong is very low.
In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Amodei said that he “agrees more than he disagrees” with former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who recently quit his job and publicly warned about the risks posed by advanced AI and even potentially being able to kill humanity by “the end of the decade”
Because when he left, he said, ‘I think Anthropic is the most responsible player, it’s an interesting resignation.
He was calling out the dynamic of the industry as a whole, moving too fast,” Amodei told Cooper. The Anthropic CEO said that discussions about risks posed by AI are often in what he called “unconditional probabilities” According to Amodei, it is more useful to focus on the choices being made and the paths being taken by the industry and called for a slowdown in AI development. In his social media posts, Coxon said Anthropic and its chief rival OpenAI “are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.
“I agree with Jacob much more than I disagree with him. I think Anthropic is the most aware of these issues. He wasn’t calling out to us. He warned that some working on AI development believe it could threaten human life by the end of the decade. OpenAI boss Sam Altman and Elon Musk, who owns xAI, quickly chimed in to say they agreed with Amodei’s assessment , as pressure builds for improved oversight.
Jacob Coxon, who said he spent three years conducting research at both Anthropic and OpenAI, said on Tuesday on the social platform X that the two AI companies are more focused on beating each other and global competitors to develop the most advanced model possible than on safety.
