ClaimsDario Amodei

“I wouldn’t be surprised if for example a really powerful AI wouldn’t be able to understand our macroeconomic systems because this data issue but it would be able to design a better macroeconomic system.”

Dario Amodei, OpenAI researcher, interviewee 21 July 2017 Dario Amodei on OpenAI and how AI will change the world for good and ill (80,000 Hours) archived copy

Prediction AI, the economy and work

A really powerful AI might be unable to understand macroeconomic systems due to data limits yet still be able to design a better one.

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

It is a speculative hypothetical about a future AI with no horizon.

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Dario Amodei, “A really powerful AI might be unable to understand macroeconomic systems due to data limits yet still be able to design a better one.” (said 21 July 2017). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_1d164efa3e3e, method 0.1.0+c876030c, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_1d164efa3e3e

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

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