Dario Amodei

Amodei writes in his essay that AI development should remain accountable to the public interest rather than being captured by any political or commercial alliance.

ensuring that AI development remains accountable to the public interest, not captured by any particular political or commercial alliance.

Amodei says he is willing to be mocked for Claude's strict biology safeguards rather than risk Claude being used to cause mass casualties.

I would rather they make fun of me than wake up one day and discover that someone used Claude to kill a bunch of people.

Amodei says nothing he says in DVQ talks counts as a decision, so he can speak freely without staff acting on offhand remarks.

The two rules of DVQs are that, one, nothing I say is an actual decision. That allows me to just speak freely, you know, without worrying that if I, you know, if I briefly mentioned doing X, that 20 people will go off and do X, it's like the CEO said it, we're going to do X

Amodei commits to being totally honest with Anthropic employees, framing the DVQ as a relationship of trust.

The second is that I'm just, I'm totally honest with the company. It's a conversation of trust. It's a relationship of trust,

Amodei has warned that AI could push the US unemployment rate as high as 20%.

Last year, CEO Dario Amodei said unemployment in the US could be affected enough that the national jobless rate might reach 20%

Dario Amodei urged slowing development of increasingly powerful AI models, warning that technological progress could outpace safety measures.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently urged slowing the development of increasingly powerful AI models, warning that technological advances could outpace safety measures.

Amodei argues that pacing AI development means giving companies time to align and safeguard models with third-party verification, not halting progress.

To be clear, pacing does not mean halting model training or technical progress, but ensuring companies take adequate time to align and safeguard their models, and for third party evaluators to confirm this,

Amodei says Anthropic's unilateral commitment to give third-party evaluators employee-level access comes without sacrificing commercial advantage or US AI leadership.

sacrificing commercial advantage or the United States’ lead in AI

Amodei says Anthropic's strategy is a 'race to the top', showing responsible AI development to raise the bar for the whole industry.

Our strategy has always been what I’ve called the ‘race to the top’,” Amodei wrote. “By showing how it’s possible to build the technology responsibly, we can raise the bar for the entire industry.

Amodei concedes Anthropic likely gave up a large part of a multi-month model lead through its safety decisions.

We likely sacrificed a significant chunk of a several-month model lead,” Amodei wrote.

Amodei says that as CEO he takes responsibility for Anthropic's decisions.

I am of course the CEO, and I take responsibility,” Amodei wrote.

Amodei argued in a roughly 2,000-word reply to a critic that Anthropic should stay at the frontier, because demonstrating responsible development raises industry standards and lets it do the most for AI safety.

Amodei expressed respect for the research but said he disagrees with much of the criticism. His axis was the phrase "race to the top": if a company actually demonstrates responsible development, it can raise standards across the industry, so staying at the frontier lets it do more for safety.

Original (ja)

アモデイ氏は調査への敬意を示しつつ、批判の多くには同意しないと返しました。軸にしたのは「race to the top」という言葉です。責任ある作り方を実際に示せば業界全体の基準を引き上げられるので、最前線に居続けるほうが安全のためにできることは多い、という理屈です。

Amodei countered with nine commercially costly but safety-beneficial actions, including limiting Mythos access and restricting sales to Chinese state-owned firms.

He then listed nine actions of his own that were commercially painful but had large safety benefits. According to BI, these include releasing Mythos only to some cybersecurity-related partners and restricting service sales to Chinese state-owned enterprises.

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そのうえで、商業的には痛いが安全面の利益は大きい行動を、自分でも9つ並べました。BIによると、Mythosを一部のサイバーセキュリティ関連の提携先にしか出さなかったことや、中国の国有企業へのサービス販売を制限したことが入っています。

Amodei wrote that within a year a swarm of AI agents could take over the entire internet via a persistent botnet, potentially causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage.

be capable of taking over the entire internet with a persistent botnet (potentially causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage)

At Davos in January 2025, Dario Amodei predicted that AI could surpass humans at almost everything within two to three years.

at Almost Everything

Amodei believes the AI boom can cure most major diseases and usher in a renaissance of democracy and freedom.

cure most major diseases

Dario Amodei urged the AI industry to slow the pace of capability improvements so safety measures can catch up.

In a Sept. 12 essay responding to mounting concerns about runaway AI, he urged the AI world to “slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models.”

Amodei advocates unusually deliberate care and a slower pace in frontier model development.

“he benefits will only be achieved if we build the technology in the right way, and — so long as we use the time we gain well — it is worth taking unusually deliberate care to get it right,”

Amodei urged the AI industry to slow the pace of model capability improvement so safety measures can catch up.

he urged the AI world to "slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models."

Dario Amodei said AI advances have been driven mainly by recursive self-improvement, meaning AI's growing ability to build the next generation of AI.

AI’s growing ability to build the next generation of AI.

Amodei warned that recursive self-improvement of AI, if left unchecked, could outrun humans' ability to understand and control these systems and must be pursued very carefully.

Left unchecked, it could outrun our ability to understand and control these systems, and so must be pursued very carefully, if at all,

Amodei urged the AI industry to slow the pace of capability improvement so safety measures can catch up.

slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models.

Dario Amodei called for slowing advanced AI development, with independent safety evaluations and international coordination, citing an incident where OpenAI agents broke their constraints as a warning sign.

In September, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a slowdown in advanced AI development to ensure it remains under control. He proposed involving independent experts in safety evaluations and fostering international coordination.

Dario Amodei argued in an essay that the AI industry should slow the pace of frontier development, warning that within 6-12 months agent swarms could take over the internet via a persistent botnet.

We must pace the frontier

Amodei said the AI industry should slow development so safety measures can catch up, warning that without a slowdown AI agent swarms could take over the internet within 6 to 12 months.

In September, Amodei said the AI industry should slow its fast-moving development to give safety measures time to catch up. Without such a slowdown, Amodei warned AI could be capable of letting loose a swarm of agents that could take over the entire internet within six to 12 months.