What today is used for good, tomorrow can be used for evil.
No no, I assure you, it's quite capable of getting very much worse.
Wow. That's incredibly optimistic. Imagine, for example, the next 'no kings' protest is met with machine gun fire, rather than ice sporadically killing activists. And then start adding on stuff.
Today, the people at the top need people at the bottom to sustain their lifestyle. Put on your billionare sociopath hat for a moment and ask yourself: If AI ever becomes sufficient to run an economy, why should you care about whether they live or die?
Then, ask yourself why the wealthy are so obsessed with AI.
AI is an authoritarian's dream. The future is bright! Dear leader Dario will lead us there!
That's a reasonable risk to take if there's a possibility of Dario Amodei becoming a trillionaire with his very own Stasi. I think AI could be very useful to implement Zersetzung (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersetzung).
[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qrriKcwvlY
FTFY
> [..] “What could have been a high-stress situation,”
Democratic protest is now a high-stress situation?
The headline anecdote is about them re-routing executives around a protest based on information from a publicly filed permit.
The other anecdote is about them reporting a user who made a death threat.
If I strip out the editorializing, I think the conclusions are:
1. Someone told Claude they had an AR-15 and the CEO of Anthropic was "in their sights". Anthropic reported this to the police.
2. Anthropic contracts with a security agency.
3. Anthropic is looking to build in-house capability for security.
Anthropic clearly has high-value targets (see, e.g. the person with the AR-15 from point 1). When I worked at Microsoft in the 2000s, they also had in-house security to investigate threats against facilities and executives.
I would believe Anthropic is doing evil things, but I don't think this article actually makes that claim, despite the bombast about "pre-crime".
Says the guy creating a pre-crime global surveillance apparatus. Wonder why people don't trust him!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror
Unfortunately we aren't even starting from good.
What today is used for evil, tomorrow can be used for eviler.
I don't see those crooks using anything for good, unless you define good as "their own personal gain".
rvz•36m ago
It turns out that Anthropic (and OpenAI) are no different to Palantir or are just Palantir-lite and both have government contracts, their AI tech was used in wars and now they are used for surveillance.
Absolutely predictable. [0]
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46407683
verdverm•26m ago
bigyabai•21m ago
ftfy