ClaimsDario Amodei

“But if truly compelling evidence of the dangers of autonomous AI emerged, I think it would be just barely possible.”

Dario Amodei, Anthropic CEO, essay on personal site 18 February 2025 The Urgency of Interpretability (darioamodei.com) archived copy

Prediction AI policy and governance

If truly compelling evidence of the dangers of autonomous AI emerged, a slowdown in AI development would be just barely possible.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Prediction: Statements about events outside the person's control, checked once they fell due: did they come true?

Reasoning

Conditional counterfactual with vague 'just barely possible' and no horizon.

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Dario Amodei, “If truly compelling evidence of the dangers of autonomous AI emerged, a slowdown in AI development would be just barely possible.” (said 18 February 2025). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_0a5df1d2f919, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_0a5df1d2f919

This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.

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