Decoder with Nilay Patel

Who decides when AI is too dangerous?

There's also a big irony here, and you'll hear Hayden and me get into that, too: Anthropic has spent years arguing that AI might soon be powerful enough to be dangerous — and that the government needed to get serious about regulating AI sooner rather than later. Well… now we're here, and Anthropic doesn't love the way it's playing out.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Who decides when AI is too dangerous?

Anthropic occupies a peculiar position in the AI landscape: a company that genuinely believes it might be building one of the most dangerous technologies in human history, yet presses forward anyway, on the theory that it's better to have safety-focused labs at the frontier than to cede that ground to developers less focused on safety.

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Another way to look at this is that Anthropic has just been very, very successful in making people very, very concerned about advanced AI. Two or three weeks ago, Anthropic actually called for a pause in development of advanced AI models because they were becoming so powerful. So, you know, there's also sort of this this criticism of Anthropic that, "Look, you've been asking for this regulation."

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There's going to be a pattern of a powerful model becomes capable of doing something. uh that it makes sense to share with the particular community that can defend against that new capability.

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If a model becomes powerful enough to design a harmful virus or something like that, uh you would want the lab that creates that model to deliver that to the scientific community and companies that can protect the population against the development of new harmful biological viruses.