The AI age could lead inevitably and logically to the conclusion that democracy is the only viable form of government if humanity is to have a good future, just as feudalism became unworkable with the industrial revolution.
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Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of TechnologyDario Amodeidarioamodei.com
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the AI age could lead inevitably and logically to the conclusion that democracy (and, hopefully, democracy improved and reinvigorated by AI, as I discuss in Machines of Loving Grace) is the only viable form of government if humanity is to have a good future.
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OptimisticUniversal democracy would represent a major improvement in human welfare and political freedom, though this is a highly speculative and long-term claim.
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Dario Amodei
Dario Amodei is the co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, the AI safety company behind the Claude large language model series, and previously served as vice president of research at OpenAI.
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Across 22 tracked claims, Dario Amodei skews pessimistic.
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