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Anthropic CEO Compares AI Risk to Tobacco Industry

Dario Amodei urged AI companies to "call it as you see it" regarding risks or face a public backlash.

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that AI firms risk becoming like "tobacco companies" if they hide risks, predicting AI will surpass human intelligence.

Dario Amodei, CEO of AI startup Anthropic, issued a stark warning to the technology industry, comparing the current state of AI development to the tobacco and opioid industries of the past.

Speaking in an interview with CBS News and The Guardian, Amodei urged his peers to be transparent about the potential dangers of their products. "You could end up in the world of, like, the cigarette companies, or the opioid companies, where they knew there were dangers, and they didn't talk about them," Amodei said.

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Amodei provided a specific prediction regarding the trajectory of the technology, …

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