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by Kostchei 501 days ago
yeh. I see Dario saying "let's protect the US more" for no reason other than bias and "of course they improved over time" which feels like a mighty strong strain of copium. Very disappointing for a leader of an organization i respected. Assuming he speaks for Anthropic, and it seems he does, Past tense.
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rcarmo 501 days ago
The "good" news is that neither Anthropic nor OpenAI are based in Europe, so I don't have to feel like they're burning my taxpayer money.

The "bad" news is that so far I've yet to see a serious contender emerging from that part of the world (although the Middle East has invested heavily in LLMs due to obvious cultural differences).

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GoatInGrey 500 days ago
He writes with the assumption that the reader understands the danger in China developing a lead in military technology. Hence his very explicit wording:

"To be clear, the goal here is not to deny China or any other authoritarian country the immense benefits in science, medicine, quality of life, etc. that come from very powerful AI systems. Everyone should be able to benefit from AI. The goal is to prevent them from gaining military dominance."

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sitkack 501 days ago
You can hear it directly from Dario

Navigating a world in transition: Dario Amodei in conversation with Zanny Minton Beddoes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvMolVW_2v0

You can tell as an academic he wants to give DeepSeek props, at least that is what I would like to believe. The first third has the presenter leaning into "cheap chinese" too many times.

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