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Labs gives us room to break the mold and explore,
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The speed of advancement in AI demands a different approach to how we build, how we organize, and where we focus.
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discovering experimental products at the frontier of Claude’s capabilities, and scaling them responsibly to meet the needs of our…
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I have probably been the leader who’s been the most skeptical and scared of the rate at which we’re growing,
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We're particularly interested in ventures that leverage AI to enhance human capabilities and productivity in fields such as healthcare…
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We look forward to working closely with Menlo and the exceptional founders backed by this Fund to push the boundaries of what’s possible…
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Through our partnership with Menlo Ventures and the Anthology Fund, we hope to accelerate the development of groundbreaking AI applications.
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We’re genuinely honored to be entrusted with the resources to continue our work in frontier AI safety and research.
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But I think that line is getting increasingly blurred.
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how quietly and seamlessly people are becoming dependent on some of these systems.
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it can produce results that on the surface, it might look like it could be a credible answer, but it's really not a credible answer, and it…
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we ultimately hope that some of the work that we do is going to be adopted and even expanded on in other organizations
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a genuine desire to reduce the risks and increase the potential benefits from AI.
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for the majority of our lives, I think we've wanted to find something to work together on and it's been really awesome that we've been able…
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running experiments on AI systems is something that requires a lot of custom software and tooling.
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there's a way that industry incentives are not the same as nonprofit groups or as civil society groups.
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until we have that common language or framework, it's hard to set things like standards across the industry around what safety even means.
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I am really hopeful about the future.
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These are important problems today.
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I think the more people working on safety-related topics, that can positively feed on itself.
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And the reason for that is because we've really taken the time to chart them out and understand what all of those potential problems could…
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There's something everyone really agrees on in industry and outside of industry, which is that security is really important.
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we really need thoughtful and empowered organizations that are working on these kinds of questions, fundamentally outside of the industry…
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And I think I'm most broadly hoping for a world where we can feel confident that when we're using AI for more advanced purposes, like…
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I think their goal is to really take the technical content that we are developing at Anthropic and translate that into something that is…
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And again, I'm not a lawyer but that's my understanding of the PBC.
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our bet is one we've talked about, which is this empirical scientific approach to doing AI research and AI safety research in particular.
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I think communication with policy makers about safety with other labs in the form of papers that we publish is something that's very…
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our kind of hope is that this will lead to more people doing interpretability research or kind of building on the work we've done in other…
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I don't know that most people necessarily even know all the ways in which AI is impacting our kind of day-to-day lives today
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it allowed us the maximum amount of flexibility in how we can structure the organization
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while machine learning experience is helpful for that, it isn't necessarily required.
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a combination of a set of two impulses that I think we've talked about a lot in this podcast.
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I would just echo everything Dario said.
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I think the field will rise to the occasion, or that's kind of my hope.
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having a wider range of views and perspectives and approaches tends to lead to a more robust approach to doing both basic research and…
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A concrete policy recommendation is, hey, go do more of that.
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Yeah, thanks so much for having us, Lucas. This was really fun.
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I really think of this as an ecosystem, and I think Anthropic is in an interesting place in the ecosystem, but we are part of the ecosystem.
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we were actually very lucky, to a later part of your question, to find both investors and employees who were generally very on board with…
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that's the impetus behind why we're studying these larger models.
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a lot of what Anthropic adds to this ecosystem or what we hope it adds is this rigorous scientific approach to doing fundamental research…
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A lot of the goals are aligned there, both for sort of short, medium and potentially long-term safety.
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part of what's valuable about a public benefit corporation is that it's flexible
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So for me, I feel like it's been an awesome experience.
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something that I think is extremely important in creating robustly safe systems is making sure that you have a variety of different people…
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it kind of blows my mind that AI, given the potential reach that it could have, is still such a largely unregulated area.
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I think something we feel interested in, or interested to explore from this empirical safety question is just how they will, as their…
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I think it's really very cool to be able to combine the things that we are good at into hopefully running an organization well.
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And the reason that we're doing that is we want to make the models safer and more aligned with human values.
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they might be either legitimately confused or they might be choosing to obscure information
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I think we've always had this uniting, top level goal of wanting to work on something that matters, something that's important and…
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there is a way that technology is a relatively small number of people having a very high impact in the world per person working on it.
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Lying usually implies agency.
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but they're very different and they look very different and they sound very different
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we really just wanted the opportunity to get that group together to do this focused research bet of building steerable, interpretable and…
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I think there's quite a lot of behaviors emerging in generative models today that I think have the potential to be fairly alarming.
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I think it implies intentionality, and I don't think we think, or maybe anyone thinks that language models have that intentionality.
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Safety problems are also very open ended.
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I felt those causes that I was working in were deeply important
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we're aiming to make systems that are helpful, honest and harmless.
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I think there's a whole swath of other groups that has, I think, a really potentially important role to play in helping to disarm race…
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we've always had very different skills
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so obscuring information, it's not a choice.
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It repeatedly tries to explain why the answer it gave you before was correct even if it wasn't.
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Those are horrible things that we're trying to prevent the model from doing or outputting
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That's the dream. Yeah, that's the dream.
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And so I think government also has an important role to play in helping to promote and really subsidize safety research in places like…
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I just felt I personally wasn't having the level of impact that I was looking for
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I think seeing more efforts to kind of support safety research in other areas, I think would be really valuable for the ecosystem.
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But a model could repeatedly produce a result that looks like it's something that could be true, but isn't actually true.
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But I think there was this consistent story or theme.
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I've always been someone who has been fairly obsessed with trying to do as much good as I personally can
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all of us wanted the opportunity to make a focused research bet with a small set of people who were highly aligned around a very coherent…
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AI safety is a really nascent field still, right.
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I think you can apply that to all different safety concerns regardless of what they are
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my hope is that Anthropic is at the intersection of this practical, scientific, empirical approach to really deeply understanding how these…
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one of our major goals in addition to doing safety research ourselves, is to sort of help grow the field of safety, all different types of…
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I think it's very important to make sure that we have a lot of different inputs and perspectives in what different types of safety…
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It's hard to talk about this without using words that imply intentionality, but we don't think the models are intentionally doing this.
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I think honestly, it's great.
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our hope is that we will see some of the safety research that we're doing that's hopefully helpful to others, also be something that other…
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something that became really apparent to me was just working in tech, how much of an impact this sector has on things like the economy, on…
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But I think all together, that ends up look like a team of people that are working together on a combination of capability and scaling work…
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without kind of an alliance of all of these different actors, not just in the private sector, but also in the public sphere, we sort of…
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They don't have intentionality
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I think the boilerplate mission is build reliable, interpretable, steerable AI systems, have humans at the center of them.
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we're hoping to do research that's generalizable enough from a safety perspective that it's also useful in other contexts.
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to just help as much as possible to push this field in a safer and ideally, just hopefully all around robust, positive direction when it…
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we have certain strengths in particular areas of safety research because we're only a certain sized company with certain people with…
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we've already gotten some great engagement already
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I think Dario covered the majority of it.
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I think that impact can be good or bad
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help us combine safety research with scaling ML models while thinking about societal impacts
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