Dario Amodei and Open Source AI Concerns

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Welcome to the podcast. Lately, if you go on X or LinkedIn or basically any social media platform, you hear a hundred people talking about perhaps the ways that AI is going to end all of humanity, and you know, whether it is or isn't, and there's this massive argument going on right now. A lot of this came from Dario Amodei, who in response to a quote unquote whistleblower, which I've covered on the podcast in the past, came out with a piece called We Must Paste the Frontier, basically saying that he wanted to slow down the development of artificial intelligence so that we could make it safe. Now, there's pros and cons to a lot of the different arguments he covers in here. I'll talk about a couple of them. But before we get into that, I think today on the show, I just want to show all sides of this argument and why I don't believe slowing down the development of AI and the pace of development is the correct answer. And it's really interesting and really kind of a weird time because I feel like there's sort of this weird political divide on this argument, but at the same time, a lot of people from different sides of the political spectrum are aligning on both sides of this argument. So it's just like a really weird, interesting time. I'll get through all of the tweets. There is a ton. Basically, everyone is digging into this and I'll get through some stories of some people and some things that I'm working on and some other stuff like that. Before I do, though, I wanted to mention if you want the ability to test out the top 90 different AI models in one place without having to get subscriptions to all those different platforms, I'd love for you to check out my own startup, which is called AI Box dot AI. We let you have a single chat interface where you can get all of the image, audio, video, text, and even music models all in one place so you can generate all of that type of AI content. You can test out all of the different models in one spot so you can switch from talking to Claude to chat to PT to Gemini to Grok all in the same conversation. You can have open AI generate images inside of that. Then you can have Google VO three generate video. You can have 11Labs generate audio all in the same chat thread. It's incredibly useful if you want to try it out. It's only $8.99 a month to get started. It is aibox.ai. I'll leave a link to it in the description. We're super excited with the progress we've been seeing here. Okay, let's talk about this. First of all, the blog post that kind of kicked off, I think the big argument here because it started out with someone who went and worked at Anthropic for I think like six weeks or something like that. He wasn't like an executive or anything. Here's one worked at Anthropic for six weeks. He made a tweet that said, you know, Anthropic and OpenAI and everyone else was gambling with our lives because self-improving AI was getting too good that it could make bioweapons and kind of wipe out all of humanity. This tweet went mega viral on X with over 700,000. Last I checked it, probably close to a million by now, because a few days ago, likes on the tweet. And so a lot of people are talking about this. He then went on a press tour on every kind of mainstream news site, CNN and all the rest of it, telling people that AI was a massive danger. This is going right in at the same time that I believe next week, we have Bernie Sanders coming out with a bill to quote unquote, ban super intelligent AI and impose a 20 year prison sentence to any developer that is caught developing this advanced AI systems. So there's a lot at stake and there's a lot politically that's moving in this. But what's interesting is I don't really find this as something that's kind of like Republican versus Democrat. Although it seems like there are some political, obviously Bernie Sanders is a Democrat. So there are some politics to it, but we do have Democrats coming over to the acceleration side, and we have Republicans going over to the deceleration side. So I would say it's not super clean and clear cut in that regard. And there's a much more nuanced conversation that has to be had about all of this. But before we get into all of the exciting drama of that, let's talk about some of the tweets. And the very first thing that I wanted to mention is after Dario came out with this, we had Elon Musk say, yeah, let's slow it down.