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Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf just challenged Anthropic CEO’s vision for AI’s future — and the $130 billion industry is taking notice
Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf challenges Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's "compressed 21st century" vision, arguing AI systems are building "yes-men on servers" rather than the revolutionary thinkers needed for scientific breakthroughs.
In a provocative blog post published on his personal website this morning, Wolf directly confronts the widely circulated vision of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who predicted that advanced AI would deliver a “ compressed 21st century ” where decades of scientific progress could unfold in just years. The exchange highlights a growing divide in how AI leaders think about the technology’s potential to transform scientific discovery and problem-solving, with major implications for business strategies, research priorities, and policy decisions. Conversely, Wolf’s perspective suggests greater returns might come from developing AI systems specifically designed to challenge existing knowledge, explore counterfactuals, and generate novel hypotheses — capabilities not necessarily emerging from current training methodologies.
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