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We can choose to sell or not sell whatever we want.
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Our model has a personality.
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I believe we have to defend our country from autocratic adversaries like China and like Russia.
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the AI systems of today are nowhere near reliable enough to make fully autonomous weapons.
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it didn't actually concede in any meaningful way.
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I actually agree that in the long run, we need to have a democratic conversation.
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We simply believe that the reliability is not there yet, and that we need to have a conversation about oversight.
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The red lines we have drawn we drew because we-- we-- we-- we believe that crossing those red lines is-- is contrary to American values.
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there's a basic unpredictability to them that in a purely technical way we have not solved.
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we're committed to trying to find a deal.
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If Anthropic receives formal government action on the designation, it will review it and challenge it in court.
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It is not illegal for the government to buy data collected by private firms and analyze it in mass with AI.
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Anthropic has received communications from the Pentagon but none that satisfy its concerns.
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But we won't let that succeed.
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Anthropic told the Department of War it accepts all use cases, about 98-99% of those the department wants, except two.
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Suppose I have an army of 10 million drones all coordinated by one person or a small set of people.
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I think it was made very clear in some of their statements, in some of their language that this was retaliatory and punitive.
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I don't want to make this about this particular administration. I don't want to make this about particular people.
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we do need to draw a line in the sand.
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This is the idea of making weapons that fire without any human involvement.
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I don't think the right long-term solution is for a private company and the Pentagon to argue about this.
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the nature of the tweet that the secretary put out was designed to create uncertainty, was designed to create a situation where people…
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We're actually deeply concerned about this.
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Disagreeing with the government is the most American thing in the world.
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Anthropic was threatened with a supply chain designation and Defense Production Act action by the government, and publicly disagreed in response.
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The law only says that, as part of its military contracts, a company cannot use Anthropic in those contracts.
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Amodei said that when Anthropic is designated a supply chain risk, those making the designation tell it, in effect, that it has to be off all of their systems.
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We have never seen anything like this pace of innovation.
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We have wanted to strike a deal since the beginning.
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Dario Amodei said he told the president that he agreed with many aspects of what the president is doing.
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is an abuse of the government's authority, even where it's technically legal.
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I think we are a good judge of what our models can do reliably
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we are not categorically against fully autonomous weapons.
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we are patriotic Americans. We have done-- everything we have done has been for the sake of this country, for the sake of supporting U.S…
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The whole timeline of the dispute was driven by the Department of War, not Anthropic.
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Our leaning forward in deploying our models with the military was done because we believe in this country.
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To Anthropic's knowledge, the supply chain risk designation had never previously been applied to an American company, only to adversary-linked firms such as Kaspersky Labs.
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Anthropic was the first AI company to make custom models for national security purposes.
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concentrating power that much doesn't work.
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If no deal is reached, Anthropic will off-board from military use smoothly so warfighters continue to be supported.
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It’s really just practical hands on experience.
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I wouldn’t worry about the cultural stuff.
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I felt that the most groundbreaking work has tended to arc the industrial labs.
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Hopefully.
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I can work on something that 200 other people will work on or I could try and set a new direction.
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I don’t generally agree with any of those things but I think this is a possible outcome and at the very least as a tail risk we should take…
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I felt like this was a silly state of affairs and that of course we can do research on making systems safer and more reliable that doesn’t…
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You can’t really research AGI now because we can’t build an AGI.
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I don’t think of anything I do as slowing down the rate of AI progress or at least I’m not trying to do that.
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I think another thing I’m worried about is that the wrong, even if we manage to make a super human AI safe or an AGI safe, then it might be…
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I want to keep working on the research end all the way until we get AGI whenever that is.
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You actually don’t need any kind of formal education.
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It didn’t seem like what they were describing was actionable
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I think of this as a precaution.
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I’m not sure you can sell stuff if you’re nonprofit.
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Yoshua Bengio’s Group is pretty well-known for doing a lot of good stuff.
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The safety work that I’m most excited about, I think, it sounds obvious but the two things you most need are an extremely strong background…
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It’s not a variable that I have a lot of control over.
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It’s just a statistical learning system. It doesn’t know about racism, it doesn’t know about racial slurs.
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I felt like maybe it was starting communication the best way to understand intelligence would be to actually directly work on building…
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I think ML work is so hot right now that anyone who goes into it, particularly on the fundamental research side, it’s easy to transition to…
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It actually could turn out that this is mostly just ML work and the final systems we build are different enough that for whatever reason…
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Also if you are at the forefront of AI, you have a better ability to implement AI’s safety in the final system that’s built.
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I think the important thing is that we shouldn’t go around with every other word we say being AGI in particular like the research itself…
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I think the attempt was to come up with some conceptual problems that relate to both that have long term and short term versions.
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I think safety shouldn’t be anything different from reinforcement learning.
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I think openness is intended to indicate the idea that these benefits should accrue to everyone.
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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…
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Installing the fire alarm is the right course of action.
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Again, I’m pretty happy in that world.
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My view is we’re relatively early in the game and I think there’s a substantial probability that the gloomy analyses are really…
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I think it’s actually complicated.
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I think pure safety considerations tell us that it’s always good to have more time
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I think it’s urgently important research area.
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But that’s not enough, we need them 99.999% safe.
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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…
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We certainly wouldn’t want that to happen.
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I think generally our view
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Generally, we’re working on following the gradient to a more general artificial intelligence and making it safe.
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Reinforcement learning is the only paradigm we have that even close to capturing this,
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Most adults living in the developed world can afford a thousand dollars but most 17-year-olds might not be able to.
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If we did build them, I would definitely worry about their safety.
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I don’t really have a good answer on the kind of like nerds think AI can solve everything question.
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My general view is I’m much less confident in our ability to identify those problems.
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The summary is we don’t know very much because it’s something we haven’t done yet.
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Whereas in the world where it does matter, it’s really great and really impactful to get a headstart on it.
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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…
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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…
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Maybe it’s turns out to be really exciting and that’s like a bet that I’m perfectly happy to take.
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If we don’t understand those, I don’t know how we can build them.
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That’s just wasteful and pointless.
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Supervised learning has this static quality where it’s like a one off.
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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…
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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…
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We call that “reward hacking”.
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I think we’re better off if AGI is developed in a stable political environment with leaders who are intelligent and have reasonable views.
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I’m not the expert on it.
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I think most of the people there are smart people who either had or could have really great careers as software engineers.
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I wasn’t particularly happy with the way they were phrasing things.
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Tensorflow is pretty easy to learn.
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