As reported by Business Insider, speaking to Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes, Amodei said that he is ‘deeply uncomfortable’ with the fact that decisions shaping the future of AI are being made by only few individuals. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has once again issued a warning about artificial intelligence, this time focusing on the concentration of power among handful of technology CEOs. “Like who elected you and Sam Altman? Cooper asked. “No one. Honestly, no one,” Amodei replied.
Amodei, who co-founded Anthropic on 2021 after leaving OpenAI has positioned his company as champion of safety and transparency. Mayhem at Amazon Amid 30,000 Job Cuts: AI – Easy Corporate Excuse? | Global Pulse Recently, Anthropic also revealed that Chinese nation-state hackers jailbroke Claude to automate a a large-scale cyberattack targeting about 30 global organizations, including government agencies and corporations. Inside Anthropic’s San Francisco headquarters, more than 60 research teams are working to identify threats and build safeguards.
Just like it’s going to go wrong on its own, it’s also going to be misused by criminals and malicious state actors,” Amodei said. Anthropic has also openly disclosed the troubling experiments, including one where its AI model Claude attempted to blackmail a fictional executive during a controlled test. “AI is a new technology. Amodei likened the effort to “putting bumpers or guardrails on the experiment. He stressed the importance of public disclosure, warning that secrecy could lead to outcomes similar to the tobacco or opioid industries, where dangers were hidden.