Artificial intelligence companies must be transparent about the risks posed by their products or be in danger of repeating the mistakes of tobacco and opioid companies, according to the chief executive of the AI startup Anthropic.<\/p>\n
Dario Amodei, who runs the US company behind the Claude chatbot, said he believed AI would become smarter than \u201cmost or all humans in most or all ways\u201d and urged his peers to \u201ccall it as you see it\u201d.<\/p>\n
Speaking to CBS News, Amodei said a lack of transparency about the impact of powerful AI would replay the errors of cigarette and opioid firms<\/a> that failed to raise a red flag<\/a> over the potential health damage of their own products.<\/p>\n \u201cYou could end up in the world of, like, the cigarette companies, or the opioid companies, where they knew there were dangers, and they didn\u2019t talk about them, and certainly did not prevent them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Amodei warned this year that AI could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs<\/a> \u2013 office jobs such as accountancy, law and banking \u2013 within five years.<\/p>\n \u201cWithout intervention, it\u2019s hard to imagine that there won\u2019t be some significant job impact there. And my worry is that it will be broad and it\u2019ll be faster than what we\u2019ve seen with previous technology,\u201d Amodei said.<\/p>\n Anthropic, whose CEO is a prominent voice for online safety, has flagged various concerns about its AI models recently, including an apparent awareness that they are being tested<\/a> and attempting to commit blackmail. Last week it said its coding tool, Claude Code, was used by a Chinese state-sponsored group<\/a> to attack 30 entities around the world in September, achieving a \u201chandful of successful intrusions\u201d.<\/p>\n Amodei said: \u201cOne of the things that\u2019s been powerful in a positive way about the models is their ability to kind of act on their own. But the more autonomy we give these systems, you know, the more we can worry are they doing exactly the things that we want them to do?\u201d<\/p>\n Logan Graham, the head of Anthropic\u2019s team for stress testing AI models, told CBS that the flipside of a model\u2019s ability to find health breakthroughs could be helping to build a biological weapon.<\/p>\n skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n Sign up to Business Today<\/p>\n Get set for the working day \u2013 we’ll point you to all the business news and analysis you need every morning<\/p>\n Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain information about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. If you do not have an account, we will create a guest account for you on theguardian.com<\/a> to send you this newsletter. You can complete full registration at any time. For more information about how we use your data see our Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy<\/a> and Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n \u201cIf the model can help make a biological weapon, for example, that\u2019s usually the same capabilities that the model could use to help make vaccines and accelerate therapeutics,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Referring to autonomous models, which are viewed as a key part of the investment case for AI, Graham said users want to an AI tool to help their business \u2013 not wreck it.<\/p>\n \u201cYou want a model to go build your business and make you a billion,\u201d he said. \u201cBut you don\u2019t want to wake up one day and find that it\u2019s also locked you out of the company, for example. And so our sort of basic approach to it is, we should just start measuring these autonomous capabilities and to run as many weird experiments as possible and see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence companies must be transparent about the risks posed by their products or be in danger of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-297060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}