Canberra rolled out the crimson carpet this week to one of many AI overlords whose expertise is driving the world down the trail of artistic destruction. Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei, the putative “good” tech oligarch, was spinning his model of a machine-driven future with the elan of a person who has untangled the mysteries of the universe – or not less than constructed a predictive textual content mannequin that may scrape the output of humanity and spit out compelling summaries of our collective consciousness.
He regaled the prime minister, assorted elected officers and the tech sector’s glitterati together with his pitch for good AI that may remodel the financial system, earlier than turning into the primary to enroll to the federal government’s new datacentre rules, conveniently launched only a week earlier. It was compelling shill and, to be truthful, Amodei isn’t the worst of the gods. He created Anthropic after leaving Open AI when the corporate distributed with its not-for-profit, “security first” mission. He recurrently shares considerate essays on the trail of expertise and has been open about his fears for the influence of his personal merchandise. He broke with the Trump administration over the boundaries to how his expertise could be used to spy on residents and allow autonomous weapons, turning himself into an enemy of the state.
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