Amodei Says Slow Down: Trump And China Say No

The useful part

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay, "We Must Pace the Frontier," on his personal website last weekend that is weighing on AI stocks. Amodei argues AI labs need to slow development to manage the risks that come with capabilities improving faster than our ability to understand and control them. Sam Altman and Elon Musk both publicly agreed with Amodei, an unusual alignment among bitter rivals.

How it works

• While Amodei's argument is very sensible, reality and the race for AI dominance are a strong counter argument.
• Not building the technology deprives humanity of benefits or simply places AI in the hands of authoritarian powers, while building it too fast is reckless.
• We're leading China in AI, and, frankly, I want to keep it that way, because whoever wins AI wins.
• If Congress just races in and does some sort of emergency session to try and regulate AI, we will lose the race to China.