Dario Amodei spent 2,000 words laying out to a critic on X why Anthropic must persist in the AI ‘race to the top’
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Amodei said Anthropic would be best placed to make AI safe by staying at the top of the game.
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei engaged in a lengthy exchange with a critic on X.Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesDario Amodei responded to a critic on X who said Anthropic wasn't delivering on its safety commitments.He said Anthropic would be best placed to make AI safe by staying at the top of the game.The critic, Nathan Calvin from Encode AI, said Anthropic was trying to win a race to superintelligence.Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei disputed a criticism that the company was putting AI safety in the back seat in its "race to the top."On Tuesday, the executive wrote a nearly 2,000-word response to a critical X post which said Anthropic was trying to win a race to superintelligence and deprioritizing AI safety.The original Monday X post was by Nathan Calvin, the chief strategy officer of Encode AI, an AI-safety advocacy nonprofit. Calvin listed nine actions by Anthropic over the past year that he said undermined its safety commitments, including signing deals for more than $500 billion in compute…