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Full interview of Dario Amodei on "CBS Sunday Morning" YouTube channel https://t.co/07tkGgpLYZ

Any pursuit of superintelligence has to be grounded in the core principle that if the AI we build is not helping humanity and under human control, it's not worth pursuing. We also need to accelerate and spread the benefits of AI, such that they are diffused broadly across countries, communities, and companies. This requires a frontier ecosystem in which both closed and open-source models can thrive. And for firms, it’s imperative that they retain full control over their unique and tacit knowledge. Every organization should be able to build its own continuous learning loop/hill climbing machine, without becoming dependent on any one model provider, and have the ability to embed its own knowledge into models and weights they control. So, in this context, we welcome the research, focus, and deliberate pacing needed to get alignment right as the design goal. We also welcome ideas like "embedded evaluators" and the broader efforts to develop the mechanisms to make this more than just talk. The key is that this cannot be controlled by a handful of entities, but must have broad representation across the ecosystem, countries, and fields, including academia. This is the approach we are taking: broad access and choice at every layer of the AI stack; enterprise control of learning loops and models; and the “Code of Conduct” that underlies our own first party MAI models that we’ll publish tomorrow for public consultation.

In a remarkable moment, Dario Amodei just said he would be willing to hand Anthropic’s technology over to the right combination of governments, during his CBS interview. Jo Ling Kent from CBS News: "Would you be willing to give up the technology to the government?" Dario Amodei: "To the right combination of governments." ---- From "CBS Sunday Morning" YouTube channel, (full video link in comment)

Full video of Dario Amodei on CNN https://t.co/25oD94yjWf

Dario Amodei got personal on CBS about AI’s risks, benefits, and the ridicule he faces on social media over safety. "I feel that this is a technology with great benefits and great risks. My father died of a disease, hepatitis C, that was something like 40% curable when he died of it. He wasn't one of the ones who was cured. A few years after, a medicine was invented that made it 95% curable. I myself survived an early-stage cancer that, if I'd been living in 1950, I probably would have died from. So I feel the weight of bringing the benefits of this technology. I also feel the risks. I wake up every day and, you know, I read one of these threat reports, like someone tried to use our model to build biological weapons. Of course, I don't want to be responsible for that, and that's why we have very strong safeguards. Almost every day, I'm made fun of on social media because our model's biology safeguards are too strong. Biology students complain, and they make jokes that they can't use the model. But the reason for that is that we have strong safeguards. I would rather they make fun of me than wake up one day and discover that someone used our model, Claude, to kill a bunch of people. I don't want that. So I feel both sides of it. I feel both sides of the responsibility." ---- From "CBS Sunday Morning" YouTube channel, (full video link in comment)

Learn to build a harness, folks. It's not surprising to me that so many YC builders want to build domain-specific harnesses. If you work long enough on a domain-specific problem, you quickly realize the opportunity. But you also realize how important that harness will be to stay competitive in the agentic era. From a product perspective, harnesses open up interesting new surface areas and experiences for the services/products you provide. From a technical perspective, harnesses are how you build and maintain a framework and set of best practices for how your users/customers interact with what you offer. Understanding how to build and design a harness means you can build much stronger intelligence stacks, given that you can customize it and understand the domain well. That's extremely valuable. It may not seem apparent yet, but a harness wave is coming. If you are getting started, give this list of harness papers to your agents and start upskilling: https://t.co/nOPcXIaITT If you are already a builder, try building one for your specific domain. It's a lot of fun, and you learn a lot of interesting things to enhance your current agentic tools.

On CNN, Dario Amodei finally spoke on Jacob Coxon’s 166M+ super viral tweet (the ex-Anthropic and OpenAI researcher who resigned). "I agree with Jacob much more than I disagree with him. It’s an interesting resignation because when he left, he said, “I think Anthropic is the most responsible player. I think Anthropic is the most aware of these issues.” He wasn’t calling out us. He was calling out the dynamic of the industry as a whole moving too fast." ---- From "CNN" YouTube channel, (full video link in comment)

Jacob Coxon’s next interview on BBC (the ex-Anthropic+OpenAI researcher who resigned). "If we don't slow down at the current rate of progress, there is a strong chance that we could all die in the immediate future. It's not at all an exaggeration. And many of the people who are deep in the weeds and actually coding the thing, believe that there is a greater than 10% chance for a probability that humans might die. And they all keep this in their head on a daily basis while working on the technology." --- Full video link in comment.

On CNN, Dario Amodei finally spoke on Jacob Coxon’s 166M+ super viral tweet (the ex-Anthropic and OpenAI researcher who resigned). "I agree with Jacob much more than I disagree with him. It’s an interesting resignation because when he left, he said, “I think Anthropic is the most responsible player. I think Anthropic is the most aware of these issues.” He wasn’t calling out us. He was calling out the dynamic of the industry as a whole moving too fast." ---- From "CNN" YouTube channel, (full video link in comment)