Last week, we made an offhand joke about offsetting the carbon cost of listening to hard fork by planting a tree. We got several emails from listeners who actually went out and planted trees after listening to that episode. There's so many things that our listeners could do and we would love them to do them. You can email us at hard fork at nytimes.com and if you have a deep fake of yourself, shoot him on your partner.
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.