Dario Amodei’s warnings should not be dismissed

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.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Mythical monster”

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