Anthropic was started by a group of open AI employees, including some of their senior technical people who left the company in late 2020 and early 2021. The story of what happened there isn't really all that clear still, but basically there were disputes about safety. "Their culture is just much different from any other AI lab I've ever encountered," he says.
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.