Anthropic執行長發出嚴峻警告：AI將「考驗我們這個物種」

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Behind the Curtain: Anthropic's warning to the world

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Dario Amodei in Davos, Switzerland, last week. Photo: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, the architect of the most powerful and popular AI system for global business, is warning of the imminent "real danger" that super-human intelligence will cause civilization-level damage absent smart, speedy intervention.

Why it matters: Amodei's company has built among the most advanced LLM systems in the world.

Amodei, one of the most vocal moguls about AI risk, worries deeply that government, tech companies and the public are vastly underestimating what could go wrong. His memo — a sequel to his famous 2024 essay, "Machines of Loving Grace: How AI Could Transform the World for the Better" — was written to jar others, provoke a public debate and detail the risks.

Amodei's concerns flow from his strong belief that within a year or two, we will face the stark reality of what he calls a "country of geniuses in a datacenter."

Among Amodei's specific warnings to the world in his essay, "The Adolescence of Technology: Confronting and Overcoming the Risks of Powerful AI":

Call to action: "[W]ealthy individuals have an obligation to help solve this problem," Amodei says. "It is sad to me that many wealthy individuals (especially in the tech industry) have recently adopted a cynical and nihilistic attitude that philanthropy is inevitably fraudulent or useless."

The bottom line: "Humanity needs to wake up, and this essay is an attempt — a possibly futile one, but it's worth trying — to jolt people awake," Amodei writes. "The years in front of us will be impossibly hard, asking more of us than we think we can give."

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