At Davos, CEOs said AI isn’t coming for jobs as fast as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei thinks

Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition…Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call to action on AI’s catastrophic risks…more AI insights from the World Economic Forum in Davos…Nvidia makes another investment in CoreWeave…Anthropic maps the source of AI model’s helpful personality.

Hello, I’m just back from covering the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Last week, I shared a few insights from on the ground in Davos. I’m going to try to share some more thoughts from my conversations below.

But, first, the talk of the AI world over the past day has been the 20,000-word essay that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei dropped Monday. The piece, titled The Adolescence of Technology and published on Amodei’s personal blog, contained a number of warnings Amodei has issued before. But, in the essay, Amodei used slightly starker language and mentioned shorter timelines for some of AI’s potential risks than he has in the past. What’s actually notable and new about Amodei’s essay is some of the solutions he proposes to these risks. I try to unpack these points here. 

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