When you were working at Google, it was kind of weird to be freaked out about AI. You tried to tie the concerns in a way that would connect as much as possible to today's systems. And then from there, you went to open AI and became one of their first sort of machine learning researchers. But something happened in 2020 that made you decide to leave.
Dario Amodei has been anxious about A.I. since before it was cool to be anxious about A.I. After a few years working at OpenAI, he decided to do something about that anxiety. The result was Claude: an A.I.-powered chatbot built by Anthropic, Mr. Amodei’s A.I. start-up.
Today, Mr. Amodei joins Kevin and Casey to talk about A.I. anxiety and why it’s so difficult to build A.I. safely.
Plus, we watched Netflix’s “Deep Fake Love.”
Today’s Guest:
- Dario Amodei is the chief executive of Anthropic, a safety-focused A.I. start-up
Additional Reading:
- Kevin spent several weeks at Anthropic’s San Francisco headquarters. Read about his experience here.
- Claude is Anthropic’s safety-focused chatbot.