> In an essay titled “Machines of Loving Grace,” Amodei wrote: “Democracies need to be able to set the terms by which powerful AI is brought into the world, both to avoid being overpowered by authoritarians and to prevent human rights abuses within authoritarian countries.”
> “The basis of our opposition to large training clusters in the Middle East, or to shipping H20’s to China, is that the ‘supply chain’ of Al is dangerous to hand to authoritarian governments—since Al is likely to be the most powerful technology in the world, these governments can use it to gain military dominance or to gain leverage over democratic countries,” Amodei wrote in the memo, referring to Nvidia chips.
Rock <-> Hard Place.
The omnipresent attitude of "if we don't do it, someone else will" is really tough to resist when it comes to AI, as if the outcome is a foregone conclusion.
Exciting times, buckle up for Mr. Toad's Wild Rice.
JumpCrisscross•6mo ago
> omnipresent attitude of "if we don't do it, someone else will" is really tough to resist when it comes to AI, as if the outcome is a foregone conclusion
It requires collective action. The President taking bribes from Qatar sends a clear message that such action won't be coördinated. In the absence of customer pressure, the choice is to play the game or not.
joules77•6mo ago
Qatars native population is 1/5th of Manhattan, but has survived the 2017 blockade from the rest of the (much larger and richer) Gulf States, has the largest US mil base, pisses Israel off with Al-Jazeera, wangled hosting the world cup, gets involved in every peace negotiation, Gaza rebuild etc etc. In comparison on the complexity scale, what Anthropic and its customer do are pee wee league bs.
myth_drannon•6mo ago
The magic of money. It's a testament that with enough money, evil can be allowed to exist and spread.
metadat•6mo ago
> “The basis of our opposition to large training clusters in the Middle East, or to shipping H20’s to China, is that the ‘supply chain’ of Al is dangerous to hand to authoritarian governments—since Al is likely to be the most powerful technology in the world, these governments can use it to gain military dominance or to gain leverage over democratic countries,” Amodei wrote in the memo, referring to Nvidia chips.
Rock <-> Hard Place.
The omnipresent attitude of "if we don't do it, someone else will" is really tough to resist when it comes to AI, as if the outcome is a foregone conclusion.
Exciting times, buckle up for Mr. Toad's Wild Rice.
JumpCrisscross•6mo ago
It requires collective action. The President taking bribes from Qatar sends a clear message that such action won't be coördinated. In the absence of customer pressure, the choice is to play the game or not.
joules77•6mo ago
myth_drannon•6mo ago