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Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 I think openness is intended to indicate the idea that these benefits should accrue to everyone. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 I thought there were a number of really talented researchers here and it was a good environment in which to think about safety in the… Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 Installing the fire alarm is the right course of action. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 Again, I’m pretty happy in that world. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 My view is we’re relatively early in the game and I think there’s a substantial probability that the gloomy analyses are really… Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 I think it’s actually complicated. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 I think pure safety considerations tell us that it’s always good to have more time Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 I think it’s urgently important research area. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 But that’s not enough, we need them 99.999% safe. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 I think that’s an area that’s already getting a decent amount of attention but probably should get more like everything in safety should… Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 We certainly wouldn’t want that to happen. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 I think generally our view Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 Generally, we’re working on following the gradient to a more general artificial intelligence and making it safe. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 Reinforcement learning is the only paradigm we have that even close to capturing this, Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 Most adults living in the developed world can afford a thousand dollars but most 17-year-olds might not be able to. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 If we did build them, I would definitely worry about their safety. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 I don’t really have a good answer on the kind of like nerds think AI can solve everything question. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 My general view is I’m much less confident in our ability to identify those problems. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 The summary is we don’t know very much because it’s something we haven’t done yet. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 Whereas in the world where it does matter, it’s really great and really impactful to get a headstart on it. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 The lesson of that is that it’s very easy to make small changes in the reward space and have that lead to big differences in the behavior… Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 If I take a complicated set of goals like that and I try and forced it into the framework of a hard-coded reward function, it’s going to… Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 Maybe it’s turns out to be really exciting and that’s like a bet that I’m perfectly happy to take. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 If we don’t understand those, I don’t know how we can build them. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 That’s just wasteful and pointless. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 Supervised learning has this static quality where it’s like a one off. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 I think the kind of safety work that we’re doing has many of the same skills as any other area in machine learning, even though the subject… Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 But I think going forward, if you’re a young student, I don’t particularly see a case for doing a PhD in another field if what you want to… Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 We call that “reward hacking”. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 I think we’re better off if AGI is developed in a stable political environment with leaders who are intelligent and have reasonable views. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 I’m not the expert on it. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 I think most of the people there are smart people who either had or could have really great careers as software engineers. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 I wasn’t particularly happy with the way they were phrasing things. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 Tensorflow is pretty easy to learn. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 one thing that I found about neural nets is that they’re very powerful but they’re very unevenly powerful. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 I think they’ve been winning the talent war recently. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 When people at the major organizations are friends with each other and work to actively collaborate, then that reduces the probability of… Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 I think actually that’s the case in any area of machine learning where you’re trying to do original research. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 at the same time no one’s defined what successful work looks like. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 I think that there’s a magic of empiricism because it’s very easy to engage in long chains of reasoning about a topic that don’t get tied… Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 What I’d rather do is have a thread running from long term to short term things where you identify what the fundamental problems are. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 It’d be extremely illegal. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 it’s clear that at the very least we’re going to have a big challenge in making sure that something doesn’t go wrong. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 It’s really pretty self-contained and you don’t need that much help. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 I’m really not against using formal reasoning methods and using mathematics but I think it’ll be possible to do that work more productively… Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 This works on the reward hacking, scalable supervision side of things. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 I get pretty nervous when we don’t have a strong background in machine learning because even if they think that a machine learning system… Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 I think we better understand the principles by which the system operates. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 Someone could sabotage a self-driving car with adversarial examples. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 I think those efforts have been successful and so I feel like it’s been good to cause things to happen that wouldn’t have caused otherwise. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 I think generally our view of AI works and what to build in AI and the focus on safety are actually pretty similar between the two… Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 Generally, when we build engineering systems, that silent, random failure, it’s not something that we see as a desirable property in… Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 Personally, I’ve no interest in getting rich from AGI. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 I think the limiting factor is just a very strong machine learning talent. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 I think many people here don’t know if there’s a way to work on safety right now. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 I think that’s the basic reason to work on AI. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 it seemed like very few people were actually working on it. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 I think that they largely thought AI safety was about fears that AIs would malevolently rise up and attack their creators. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 I generally tend to give people the advice to come to industrial labs. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 I was actually really excited about this because I saw this as a test bed to study safety. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 I think the most important thing is being able to keep up with the literature and make, creative, original discoveries that are novel and… Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 Yeah, there’s a huge amount of leverage to be had. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 If they don’t already have access to one it might be a good way to get people started early. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 It’s just one little bit of progress on one. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 I myself want to stay at OpenAI and work on safety. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 By no means does this solve all safety problems. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 The level of technical ability you need to show is not lowered, it’s even higher when you don’t have the educational background, but it’s… Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 I’m pretty suspicious of anything where you can’t get that type empirical feedback loop because I think it’s really easy for people to fool… Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 If people are worried about progress being slowed down, I don’t believe anything I do is close to that. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 If it has the wrong objective function, if you don’t specify its goal correctly, it can do something unpredictable and therefore dangerous. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 I think there are almost certainly things that are very specific to powerful systems. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 I can’t see any reason and principle why that couldn’t happen. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 The same kind of thing could go wrong with an AGI as could go wrong with a very simple agent playing a video game or robot cleaning your… Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 People can do it in high school like, if you meet a 17 year old, how do you get them into machine learning. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 Yes, thanks for having me. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 I think that’s a pretty important problem. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 I wouldn’t say we’ve gone away from software engineering so much as we’ve been experimenting with how to produce tools and takes a few… Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 We’re still laying out what the problems are and what the work is that needs to be done. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 I don’t think it will be a barrier. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 I’m starting to wonder that in the last year we’re not in such a peaceful geopolitical state. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Dario Amodei Not checkable 13 Oct 2025 I wouldn’t recommend by going back and doing another PhD in machine learning. Dario Amodei · Not checkable · 13 Oct 2025
Not checkable Balaji Srinivasan Not checkable 12 Oct 2025 We’re actually seeing the reverse of the “digital divide” of the 90s; the hard part isn’t getting people online, but getting communities… Balaji Srinivasan · Not checkable · 12 Oct 2025
Not checkable Balaji Srinivasan Not checkable 12 Oct 2025 And there’s also now a process: begin with a popup, and get your online friends in the same place at the same time for an extended duration. Balaji Srinivasan · Not checkable · 12 Oct 2025
Not checkable Balaji Srinivasan Not checkable 12 Oct 2025 Of course, it’s rare to have so many prominent speakers at a single conference, or to see attendees glued to their chairs long into the… Balaji Srinivasan · Not checkable · 12 Oct 2025
Mostly true Balaji Srinivasan Factual 12 Oct 2025 Olaf Carlson-Wee sees network states speed-running the path from bare land to Dubai and Singapore. Balaji Srinivasan · Factual · 12 Oct 2025 Their own work or organisation
Not checkable Balaji Srinivasan Not checkable 12 Oct 2025 Network State Conference 2025 was a smash hit. Balaji Srinivasan · Not checkable · 12 Oct 2025
Not researched Balaji Srinivasan Factual 12 Oct 2025 Kazakhstan has launched a national crypto reserve and announced a crypto city. Balaji Srinivasan · Factual · 12 Oct 2025 Economics and markets
Not researched Balaji Srinivasan Factual 12 Oct 2025 Murtaza Hussein sees network states as inevitable because nation states are lumbering like empires before them. Balaji Srinivasan · Factual · 12 Oct 2025 Their own work or organisation
Not checkable Balaji Srinivasan Not checkable 12 Oct 2025 we can take the once-functional parts of the 20th century rules-based order and rebuild them in a 21st century code-based order. Balaji Srinivasan · Not checkable · 12 Oct 2025
Not checkable Balaji Srinivasan Not checkable 12 Oct 2025 a popup is similar to a startup, with a roadmap for starting up small but eventually scaling up big. Balaji Srinivasan · Not checkable · 12 Oct 2025
Not checkable Balaji Srinivasan Not checkable 12 Oct 2025 In reality it’s about cloud first and land last — but not land never. Balaji Srinivasan · Not checkable · 12 Oct 2025
Not checkable Balaji Srinivasan Not checkable 12 Oct 2025 That means the cloud can take physical form. Balaji Srinivasan · Not checkable · 12 Oct 2025
Not checkable Balaji Srinivasan Not checkable 12 Oct 2025 Ultimately, the goal of the network state movement is to help create 1000+ friendly internet communities around the world that anyone can… Balaji Srinivasan · Not checkable · 12 Oct 2025
Not checkable Balaji Srinivasan Not checkable 12 Oct 2025 if it’s successful, you can go from from a popup (which is a physical prototype) to a permanent (which is a production deployment). Balaji Srinivasan · Not checkable · 12 Oct 2025
Not checkable Balaji Srinivasan Not checkable 12 Oct 2025 As noted here, despite their enormous scale, China and the Internet are nevertheless somehow invisible. Balaji Srinivasan · Not checkable · 12 Oct 2025
Not checkable Balaji Srinivasan Not checkable 12 Oct 2025 The next startup is a popup. Balaji Srinivasan · Not checkable · 12 Oct 2025
Not checkable Balaji Srinivasan Not checkable 12 Oct 2025 Because the old postwar world is fading rapidly, as you can see from every headline on political chaos, military pullback, and monetary… Balaji Srinivasan · Not checkable · 12 Oct 2025
Not checkable Balaji Srinivasan Not checkable 12 Oct 2025 China because it’s overseas, and the Internet because it’s in the cloud. Balaji Srinivasan · Not checkable · 12 Oct 2025
Not checkable Balaji Srinivasan Not checkable 12 Oct 2025 While I’d agree those are indeed relevant precursors, the key difference is that popups are community-oriented rather than… Balaji Srinivasan · Not checkable · 12 Oct 2025
Unresolvable Balaji Srinivasan Prediction 12 Oct 2025 If the West's debt proves unfixable and the West falls, the Internet would endure. Balaji Srinivasan · Prediction · 12 Oct 2025 Technology
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Dario Amodei

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“This works on the reward hacking, scalable supervision side of things.”

Dario Amodei 13 October 2025 Dario Amodei on OpenAI and how AI will change the world for good and ill (80,000 Hours)

This works on the reward hacking, scalable supervision side of things.

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Dario Amodei, “This works on the reward hacking, scalable supervision side of things.” (said 13 October 2025). Verdict: not checkable. Reliability API, claim c_ac7cf0ca0fd3, method 0.1.0+c876030c. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_ac7cf0ca0fd3

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