Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei defends AI testing, says open-weights not sufficient, cites trust crisis
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei shared his views on AI regulation in a social media post, arguing that open-weights are not a sufficient solution and defending the practice of testing. He attributed public distrust of AI to a broader crisis of trust in institutions, not to AI leaders' risk warnings, and said concrete achievements like curing cancer would restore trust. His comments drew responses, including from David Sacks, who framed the debate as whether frontier AI should be distributed or centralized.
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Dario Amodei / @darioamodei : Dario Amodei shares his view on AI regulation, says open-weights aren't a “sufficient” solution, defends testing, highlights a “crisis of trust” in AI, and more — 1/2 Thanks Gavin for an especially thoughtful exchange. I don't usually spend much time on social media but I wanted to engage here because it really brings out the heart of an important conversation. First, on regulation, I think that “either concentrate it in the hands of a
Simon Willison
I do agree that the public has a negative view of AI (and that this is a big problem), but I don’t think it is primarily caused by me or any other AI leader warning about AI’s risks. I think it is fundamentally a crisis of trust. I think that ordinary people don’t trust companies, governments, or the tech industry and always suspect that we are cooking up some new way to screw them over. The causes of this go back decades and AI is just the latest iteration of it. I don’t think that a glitzy marketing campaign with a positive spin (which some have advocated that Anthropic do) is the way to win back that trust — at this point, saying that AI will cure cancer is more a cliche than it is inspiring, and most people think it is deceptive. The thing that will work is actually curing cancer . I think by far the most accurate criticism of AI companies including Anthropic is that we haven’t yet delivered on our big promises to benefit the world. That is totally on us, and I think it’s the criti
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David Sacks / @davidsacks : David Sacks says “Dario Amodei believes frontier AI is too powerful to distribute; we believe it is too powerful to centralize” after Amodei shared policy ideas — Some thoughts on Dario's post: 1. Dario does not actually address Gavin Baker's account of what he said - something he could easily deny if it were inaccurate. 2. Dario claims his critics live in a “bubble” where all regulation equals regulatory capture. He calls this an overly