Amodei calls for better regulation, sees «early glimmers» on diseases soon

Dario Amodei wants disproportionally tougher regulation on the heavyweights than for early stage startups. (Picture: Shutterstock)
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei posted a lengthy essay on X during the weekend, where he argues for more regulation of frontier AI models, saying that AI is «structurally a technology that tends to concentrate power.»

He lands in favor of redistribution-like regulations that benefit newer startups and «those catching up,» while disadvantaging the more powerful frontier labs.

Open source models should also be vetted once they reach a certain level, as the White House has agreed to. Open source brings «specific risks,» he argues, although he doubts they will solve the distribution or concentration problem.

On AI’s generally negative public image lately, Amodei says this is fundamentally an issue of trust:

— I think that ordinary people don’t trust companies, governments, or the tech industry and always suspect that we are cooking up some new way to screw them over, he writes.

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