There are no heroes in commercial AI
In an essay yesterday, Robert Wright put it bluntly:All of which brings us back to Anthropic, whose Claude large language model is integrated into Maven, software that’s operated by Palantir and used by the Pentagon to identify targets. Instead, as I warned in a January 2023 essay on driverless cars, “[not-quite-perfect] Automation is a double-edged sword, …. the closer [systems] get to perfect, the easier it is for mere mortals to space out.”Overtrust in AI is a huge problem. We have seen it before in law (hallucinated cases that wind up in submitted briefs), journalism, and so on.
- ▪In an essay yesterday, Robert Wright put it bluntly:All of which brings us back to Anthropic, whose Claude large language model is integrated into Maven, software that’s operated by Palantir and used by the Pentagon to identify targets.
- ▪Instead, as I warned in a January 2023 essay on driverless cars, “[not-quite-perfect] Automation is a double-edged sword, …. the closer [systems] get to perfect, the easier it is for mere mortals to space out.”Overtrust in AI is a huge prob
- ▪We have seen it before in law (hallucinated cases that wind up in submitted briefs), journalism, and so on.
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There are no heroes in commercial AIWhen it comes down to it, Dario Amodei isn’t all that different from Sam AltmanGary MarcusMar 08, 20263788848ShareAs bad as Sam Altman is, Dario Amodei isn’t all that different.For sure, Dario stood the line, at least for a moment, on two of the most important issues of our time, mass surveillance of US citizens and using unreliable AI for military targets without humans in the loop, for which I immediately saluted him. But he’s no saint, either. Let’s start with the military stuff.Up until (and even after) Dario’s battle with the defense department, the defense department was actively using Claude for targeting, presumably with Anthropic’s consent and likely with their assistance.
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