Anthropic CEO Says Government Should Help Ensure AI's Economic Upside Is Shared (msn.com)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/26/01/20/1813225/anthropic-ceo-says-government-should-help-ensure-ais-economic-upside-is-shared
- Source link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/anthropic-ceo-says-government-should-help-ensure-ai-s-economic-upside-is-shared/ar-AA1UB0o4
> Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei predicted a future in which AI will spur significant economic growth -- but could lead to widespread unemployment and inequality. Amodei is both "excited and worried" about the impact of AI, he said in an interview at Davos Tuesday. "I don't think there's an awareness at all of what is coming here and the magnitude of it."
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> Anthropic is the developer of the popular chatbot Claude. Amodei said the government will need to play a role in navigating the massive displacement in jobs that could result from advances in AI. He said there could be a future with 5% to 10% GDP growth and 10% unemployment. "That's not a combination we've almost ever seen before," he said. "There's gonna need to be some role for government in the displacement that's this macroeconomically large."
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> Amodei painted a potential "nightmare" scenario that AI could bring to society if not properly checked, laying out a future in which 10 million people -- 7 million in Silicon Valley and the rest scattered elsewhere -- could "decouple" from the rest of society, enjoying as much as 50% GPD growth while others were left behind. "I think this is probably a time to worry less about disincentivizing growth and worry more about making sure that everyone gets a part of that growth," Amodei said. He noted that was "the opposite of the prevailing sentiment now," but the reality of technological change will force those ideas to change.
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Gotta feed the clipping service (Score:2)
I guess Amodei reviewed his PR report and didn't like the mention count. Time to see if people are still scared of robots stealing their jerbs.
The only goal government have (Score:2)
Is to catch them after the bubble pops. The constant hype mixed with doom and gloom further mixed with studies finding the opposite of the hype it's all very concerning that more and more money is being thrown behind it.
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The hype and gloom serve the same purpose: convince the people who believe they will be on the winning side of the battle to GIVE ME MONEY NOW (me being Amodei, Altman, etc), because they need it to feed their money incinerator.
There is limited awareness of what's coming (Score:3)
...and even less actual knowledge.
The future is becoming increasingly unpredictable.
Things will change, but nobody knows exactly how.
He May Be Right (Score:3)
He may be right. The time may come, sooner than we think, that government intervention(wellfare) will be needed. Perhaps Anthropic should start contributing a a fund to help cover the damage that they are clearly planning to cause and profit from?
AI and slums (Score:2)
AI companies make trillions while people still live in slums. AI companies should be required to use AI to mass manufacture houses to finally solve the global housing crisis.
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> AI companies make trillions while people still live in slums. AI companies should be required to use AI to mass manufacture houses to finally solve the global housing crisis.
My thinking or more on the line: solving energy, water and food, then housing problems, so basic stuff is available to everyone
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Do you think any member of the proletariat has a 3D printer big enough to print a house just waiting for the software to run it autonomously? And presumably unmanned trucks and construction vehicles to go along with it? How many do you even think have a computer that could run a powerful LLM decently?
The only way we get a Star Trek economy is if workers band together and fight ownership-class interests tooth and nail to make it happen. Otherwise, we get an Elysium economy (Amodei's latter scenario).
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Quick fact check - which AI company is making trillions?
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> Quick fact check - which AI company is making trillions?
None of them. They're borrowing trillions in a triangular scheme of circular lending; the computing platform company invests trillions in the AI company which invests trillions in the energy company which invests trillions in the original computing company, increasing their overall valuation until they're all Too Big To Fail before the bubble pops.
How about sharing like it's 1979? (Score:2, Informative)
How about we change the top marginal Federal income tax rate back to what it was in 1979? At the same time, we need to put an end to the Buy, Borrow, Die by taxing any loan at the marginal income tax rate calculated based upon the total value of all assets. Or something similar that someone who knows a lot more about tax law than me. Something needs to be done about the wholesale tax avoidance these morbidly rich frakkers have been engaged in for 40+ years.
Eat the frakking rich, starting with Leon!
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Here here. Never forget that $80B that Biden had allocated to the IRS for tax enforcement was on track to like 6X it's cost in returns by closing the $600B tax gap before Republicans stripped it away yet again.
And that is not any changing of the rates or laws that would have been billions a year more revenue of just money that is owed under the current system. We literally just let tax cheats get away with it.
So, expropriate? (Score:2)
If a new development is going to leave large numbers of people unemployed, it would make sense for the government to seize it so that the wealth created by it can be invested in supporting those who lost their jobs because of it.
However, for some reason I suspect Anthropic's CEO may be hoping for the opposite result, having the government subsidizing the private company with whatever excuse.
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That would be socialism.
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+1 Informative, you
40 hours (Score:3)
Weirdly, despite all the technological changes in my lifetime, my dad worked 40 hours a week for his lifestyle, I work 40 hours and I've no doubt that the next generation will have to work 40 hours as well. I don't think we'd know what to do with leisure time as a society, but leisure costs money and we might have less in the future
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The 40 hour workweek was obtained through bloodshed. We could have a 20 hour workweek, but you'd have to do the foot work as a nation.
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This. The only reason we don't have a 24 hour workweek with no loss in annual pay right now is because we allowed inequality to worsen for half a century.
And anecdotally, it seems that we're backsliding from the 40 hour workweek too. It's seems to be becoming the norm to see jobs that require long hours, weekend and holiday work.
Missing from Amodei's "analysis" (Score:2)
> I think this is probably a time to worry less about disincentivizing growth and worry more about making sure that everyone gets a part of that growth
Disclaimer - it's possible that what I'm hearing here may merely be a result of my prejudice and paranoia. That said, it sounds to me as though Amodei is in a charitable mood - and if so, fuck that noise. Everyone needs to recognize that AI is built on the backs of all of us.
First, we contributed in various ways to keeping society together and functional while the broligarchs were cooking this stuff up.
Second, it was our taxes that paid for the infrastructure which supports - and is being overburdened by -
It ALWAYS goes nightmare or it goes bust (Score:1)
"Amodei painted a potential "nightmare" scenario that AI could bring to society if not properly checked, laying out a future in which 10 million people -- 7 million in Silicon Valley and the rest scattered elsewhere -- could "decouple" from the rest of society, enjoying as much as 50% GPD growth while others were left behind."
Everything tech has two potential outcomes in the United States - nightmare or bubble burst. There's not a happy in-between unless your name is Torvalds.
If you look at ANYTHING that h
A Force So Powerful (Score:2)
It could only be used for Good. Or Evil.