Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, an AI startup backed by Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Jeff Bezos’ Amazon.com Inc., has affirmed his commitment to AI safety, irrespective of the result of the 2024 elections. Anthropic is a competitor of ChatGPT-parent OpenAI.
What Happened: In an interview with Time Magazine published on Sunday, Amodei was asked about the potential impact of the 2024 elections on AI safety.
In response, he said, “Look, whoever the next president is, we're going to work with them to do the best we can to explain both that the U.S. needs to stay ahead of its adversaries in this technology, but also that we need to provide reasonable safeguards on the technology itself.”
He went on to add, “My message is going to be the same. Obviously, different administrations are going ...