Dario Amodei, the CEO of $19 billion AI startup Anthropic, doesn't think humanity is in any immediate danger from evolving artificial intelligence models and tools. But he has a problem with the justification some his peers use to pooh-pooh the risks.
Speaking at an AI conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, Amodei took issue with the idea that AI models are, and will always be, mere chatbots with limited abilities. He criticized in particular a version of this mindset espoused by Marc Andreessen, the famed venture capitalist and champion of unrestricted AI, who has famously dismissed concerns by arguing that AI is really just math. "Restricting AI means restricting math, software, and chips" Andreessen tweeted in March.
