SNL Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.'S Threat to Humanity [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nvne3LzBls

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verdverm•1h ago

I for one am glad to see society moving from deference to skepticism of these valley elite

DonHopkins•55m ago

It's all just a big scam to scare the public into buying robot insurance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4Gh_IcK8UM

verdverm•52m ago

lol, that's good

Lawfare Media recently, actually proposed a mutualize insurance system for Ai

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/bootstrapping-frontier-...

I don't think it such a bad idea that the Big Ai labs put money into a fund for their negligence, but that should not relieve them of criminal liabilities

my consternation is that they likely have sufficient money to avoid consequences, like the sacks and the opioid epidemic, two-tier justice system at it's finest...

Bluecobra•42m ago

An insurance policy with a robot plan? Certainly, I’m too old!

layer8•38m ago

Does it apply when robo-advisors make bad investments?

BearOso•28m ago

In reality, it is a big scam to trick the public into thinking AI is dangerous and needs to be regulated. Then the government can limit it so only the preferred companies can continue to develop it.

It's because both frontier companies are worried about plateauing and there's no barrier to competition. They both have upcoming IPOs, too.

sandeepkd•12m ago

> I urge you to urge me to stop

Just give me the money

iAMkenough•1h ago

How long until the President of the United States threatens to pull licenses for NBC over their anti-AI viewpoint?

bstsb•1h ago

it’s alright, they’re making fun of the “security risk” Anthropic’s CEO, not their darling Altman

kanwisher•27m ago

Trump doesn’t like Dario, he has been invited to White House I guess to make him stop causing drama https://x.com/Polymarket/status/2104238992254222679?s=20

barbazoo•1h ago

> The uploader has not made this video available in your country

egeozcan•1h ago

Here you go: https://www.instagram.com/reels/Ddxyuq4N9vj/ (had the same problem)

sajithdilshan•9m ago

It's so stupid, like why would they block it on YouTube, but not on instagram. Is the copyright law only applicable in YouTube

Waterluvian•1h ago

Copyright might be part of this; I haven’t thought that through. But this restriction is about whose turf they’re trying to push their product on. SNL has to be pushed through a different distributor in different regions.

Zigurd•40m ago

Men who didn't outgrow Ayn Rand used to be excusable oddities in the tech workplace. Somehow the tech industry let that get out of hand and metastasize into a malevolent authoritarian streak with apocalyptic overtones. The normies are correct in thinking there's nothing attractive about that.

What will it take to bring the tech industry back to being perceived as improving the future instead of creating an oppressive surveillance state and bowing to a wanna be dictator?

bogzz•28m ago

It's pretty difficult for me to imagine a turnaround there. Disenshittification would make shareholders irate.

kanwisher•28m ago

Sorry Dario is the exact opposite of Ayn Rand, he wants the government to manage his industry cause he thinks it will be good for him. More likely all his competitors are more libertarian like Ayn Rand writes about

malfist•14m ago

Libertarian freedom for me and my friends, harsh regulatory capture for my enemies

kennywinker•10m ago

Notoriously, Ayn Rand only believed deregulation. Her books are just the phrase "deregulation is good" over and over and over.

nba456_•26m ago

tptacek•32m ago

This is the best thing Jane Wickline has done. I worried about whether she was on the bubble because she's so situational (I think that's a good thing), but clearly she's got staying power.

The_Blade•13m ago

i just learned her partner is named Henry Hornbuckle now this is power couple we deserve but not the one we need right now

TheAceOfHearts•25m ago

I generally don't think SNL is very funny but I think it's quite socially healthy that they make fun of the political and economic elites. I wonder if we mapped out their targets if there would be any glaring omissions that would stand out.

This video didn't make me laugh but I appreciate the flexing of the first amendment. They should continue with other AI-related figures.

charcircuit•11m ago

I disagree there are so many other ways to be funny than making fun of someone's stuttering. We shouldn't be bullying people delivering trillions of dollars of value to society.

rudedogg•10m ago

Agreed. I wish they would have thrown in a "guardrails to stop me, but mostly my competitors" so the public would think about that possibility more.

bitwize•12m ago

When Dario talks to himself sotto voce and then answers himself in a raspy voice, Gollum-like, made me lose it. I once encountered a severely cognitively deficient individual on the bus who calmed himself in the exact same fashion. It's almost a perfectly succinct psychological snapshot of the character they're trying to create.

sippingabonedry•6m ago

Is this supposed to be funny?

Hard to comprehend how we've gone from Norm MacDonald being so relentlessly bold he was fired, to this sterility, in 30 years.

gib444•1m ago

[delayed]

GaryBluto•19m ago

"Ayn Rand" unfortunately seems to have become shorthand on HN for "politics I disagree with". I wonder how long it's going to be until I see somebody here describes the CCP as "Randian".

verdverm•14m ago

The EA folks are not happy with the newfound HN criticisms either

If I may... a drEAk meme

(⌐_⌐)ノ Empathy

(•ᴗ•)つ Apathy

The_Blade•18m ago

yeah this isn't just moving the goalposts it suddenly started playing Gaelic football but this all seems a lot more Ellsworth Toohey

malfist•15m ago

Sure, pushing for regulations.

What are they doing now to stop their harms? They're not bound to commit as much harm as possible just because government hasn't told them to knock it off, they can just, not.

kennywinker•14m ago

I think the Ayn Rand thing is more about "the I'm getting mine, f everyone else". However the next 5-10 years shake out, if you're ultra rich today you'll almost definitely be ultra rich in 10 years. Probably ultra-richer. Ayn Rand wasn't just about free markets, she was about individualism over collectivism. Don't worry about how your actions will effect society, worry about what's best for yourself and society will work itself out.

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