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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at last year\u2019s World Economic Forum in Davos on Jan. 23, 2025. Fabrice Coffrini\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n\t\tAnthropic CEO Dario Amodei at last year\u2019s World Economic Forum in Davos on Jan. 23, 2025. Fabrice Coffrini\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n
The national security risks of selling A.I. chips to China far outweigh the benefits of spreading U.S. technology worldwide, according to Dario Amodei<\/a>. The Anthropic<\/a> founder and CEO is pushing back against recent policies that frame such sales as a way to integrate the technology of leading U.S. companies, such as Nvidia<\/a>, into global ecosystems.<\/p>\n \u201cAre we going to sell nuclear weapons to North Korea because that produces some profit for Boeing<\/a>?\u201d asked Amodei while speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, today (Jan. 20). \u201cThat analogy should make clear how I see this trade-off\u2014that I just don\u2019t think it makes sense.\u201d<\/p>\n In recent months, restrictions on A.I. chip exports have been eased under the Trump administration, in part thanks to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang\u2019s lobbying.<\/a> This pullback gives A.I. leaders less time to understand the technology\u2019s development, societal impacts and existential risks of new technologies, according to Amodei. \u201cThe reason we can\u2019t [slow down] is because we have geopolitical adversaries building the same technology at a similar pace,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n Demis Hassabis<\/a>, CEO of Google DeepMind<\/a>, echoed the need for a more nuanced approach to A.I.\u2019s geopolitical challenges while speaking alongside Amodei on a Davos panel. When it comes to establishing safety standards, international cooperation between nations like the U.S. and China is \u201cvitally needed,\u201d said Hassabis.<\/p>\n Hassabis added that his concerns extend beyond governments to academia. He said he has been \u201cconstantly surprised\u201d by how few economists and professors are seriously examining A.I.\u2019s effects on issues like job displacement and wealth distribution.<\/p>\n Getting A.I.\u2019s societal deployment right, Hassabis argued, will require the technology\u2019s evolution to slow. Achieving that slowdown, however, \u201cwould require some coordination.\u201d<\/p>\n The early days of A.I.\u2019s labor impacts<\/p>\n Both Amodei and Hassabis said they are already seeing A.I.\u2019s influence on the labor market within their own companies. Hassabis pointed to a \u201cslowdown\u201d in hiring at Google DeepMind, especially for entry-level roles such as interns.<\/p>\n Amodei, meanwhile, has long warned that A.I. could trigger major labor disruption. Last year, he said the technology could wipe out 50 percent of all entry-level white-collar jobs within five years. He said this transformation is already taking place within Anthropic, and his company is thinking internally about how to manage the shift \u201cin a sensible way.\u201d<\/p>\n Both leaders believe the job market will ultimately adapt, including through the creation of new A.I.-enabled roles. Still, Hassabis stressed that work is about more than income. Questions around how meaning and purpose are tied to jobs are\u00a0among those \u201cthat keep me up at night,\u201d he said, adding that the financial effects of labor disruption are easier to solve \u201cthan what happens to the human condition, and humanity as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n While the Anthropic and Google DeepMind CEOs largely agree on the geopolitical, societal, and labor implications of A.I., they diverge on timing. Amodei believes A.I. could reach the capabilities of a Nobel laureate within just a few years. Hassabis, by contrast, puts the odds of human-level A.I. at 50 percent by the end of the decade.<\/p>\n Even so, both agree that neither timeline leaves much room for companies, policymakers, or governments to develop a coherent response to the technology\u2019s growing influence. \u201cThere isn\u2019t a lot of time before this comes,\u201d said Hassabis.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at last year\u2019s World Economic Forum in Davos on Jan. 23, 2025. 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