Dario Amodei’s warnings should not be dismissed

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei
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When in 2019 OpenAI finished training a new large language model called GPT-2, the artificial-intelligence lab initially declared it too dangerous to be released. Dario Amodei, then OpenAI’s research director, insisted that the world needed time to prepare.

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