This top AI CEO sounds the alarm about mass job losses: “I don’t think we can stop this bus”
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has warned about the dangers of Artificial Intelligence.
The machines are taking over. I’m telling you, you’re telling yourself and now another top AI CEO has sounded the same alarm.
Speaking to CNN’s Anderson Cooper in an interview on Thursday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned of the dangers of the rapidly-advancing technology, admitting that AI is “starting to get better than humans at almost all intellectual tasks”.
“AI is starting to get better than humans at almost all intellectual tasks, and we’re going to collectively, as a society, grapple with it,” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said. “AI is going to get better at what everyone does, including what I do, including what other CEOs do.”
‘This change looks different, it looks faster’
The concern comes with jobs for the working classes. With AI developing rapidly, entry-level jobs are set to become dominated by robots, says the CEO; a World Economic Forum survey showed that 41% of employers plan to downsize their workforce because of AI automation by 2030, cite CNN.
“If AI creates huge total wealth, a lot of that will, by default, go to the AI companies and less to ordinary people,” he added. “So, you know, it’s definitely not in my economic interest to say that, but I think this is something we should consider and I think it shouldn’t be a partisan thing.”
In quite foreboding language, Amodei said that “People have adapted to past technological changes. But everyone I’ve talked to has said this technological change looks different, it looks faster, it looks harder to adapt to, it’s broader. The pace of progress keeps catching people off guard.”
“I don’t think we can stop this bus,” Amodei admitted. “From the position that I’m in, I can maybe hope to do a little to steer the technology in a direction where we become aware of the harms, we address the harms, and we’re still able to achieve the benefits.”
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Given the dangers, some have called for a pause on AI advancements, something that appears to have fallen on deaf ears. At present, an open letter asking to pause giant AI experiments has over 33,000 signatures from various figures around the world, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, author Yuval Noah Harari and a number of AI scientists themselves.
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