For many industries, government regulation can be the death knell for success. For AI, more government involvement is necessary for the industry's long-term survival. At least, that's what Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, thinks. On Sunday, he reiterated his case for regulating the AI sector to Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes.
Amodei told Cooper he's in favor of "responsible and thoughtful regulation of [AI]" because he's "deeply uncomfortable" with societal change being brought about by frontier AI companies. While Amodei's calls for government intervention sound altruistic, regulation would only benefit Anthropic and other highly capitalized incumbents, which can afford to clear regulatory hurdles that effectively close the market off to entrants who cannot.
