#078 - The Moat They Are Calling Safety
Let's talk about Saturday the twelfth of September, when the man who runs Anthropic published an essay asking governments to slow down artificial intelligence. Dario Amodei called it "We Must Pace the Frontier". It is well written. In places it is clearly sincere. And it is, in effect, a request for a moat, submitted in the language of public safety. Let me be fair to him first, because the lazy version of this argument is wrong. Two things convinced him, he says. One: since roughly…
This episode of WE ARE STILL HUMAN examines the human stakes behind the moat they are calling safety — where…
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