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Anthropic’s CEO thinks AI will lead to a utopia — he just needs a few billion dollars first
Dario Amodei’s “Machines of Loving Grace” blog follows the trend of AI leaders promising utopia just ahead of funding rounds.
In the blog, titled“Machines of Loving Grace,”he envisions a future where AI could compress 100 years of medical progress into a decade, cure mental illnesses like PTSD and depression, upload your mind to the cloud, and alleviate poverty. In Altman’s blog, he stated that the world will have superintelligence in “a few thousand days” and that this will lead to “massive prosperity.” It’s a persuasive performance: paint a utopian future, hint at solutions to humanity’s deepest fears — death, hunger, poverty — then argue that only by removing some redundant guardrails and pouring in unprecedented capital can we achieve this techno-paradise. Despite his stated aversion to grandiose claims, he spends thousands of words painting a future where AI could reshape humanity’s destiny (seeming to match Altman’s silver-tongued pitches, which are legendary in tech circles).
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