The Trump administration might imagine regulation is crippling the AI trade, however one of many trade’s greatest gamers doesn’t agree.
At WIRED’s Massive Interview occasion on Thursday, Anthropic president and cofounder Daniela Amodei informed WIRED editor at giant Steven Levy that despite the fact that Trump’s AI and crypto czar, David Sacks, might have tweeted that her firm is “running a sophisticated regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering,” she’s satisfied her firm’s dedication to calling out the potential risks of AI is making the trade stronger.
“We were very vocal from day one that we felt there was this incredible potential” for AI, Amodei mentioned. “We really want to be able to have the entire world realize the potential, the positive benefits, and the upside that can come from AI, and in order to do that, we have to get the tough things right. We have to make the risks manageable. And that’s why we talk about it so much.”
Greater than 300,000 startups, builders, and corporations use some model of Anthropic’s Claude mannequin and Amodei mentioned that, by way of the corporate’s dealings with these manufacturers, she’s discovered that, whereas clients need their AI to have the ability to do nice issues, additionally they need it to be dependable and secure.
“No one says, ‘We want a less safe product,’” Amodei mentioned, likening Anthropic’s reporting of its mannequin’s limits and jailbreaks to that of a automobile firm releasing crash-test research to indicate the way it has addressed security issues. It might sound surprising to see a crash-test dummy flying by way of a automobile window in a video, however studying that an automaker up to date their car’s security options because of that check might promote a purchaser on a automobile. Amodei mentioned the identical goes for corporations utilizing Anthropic’s AI merchandise, making for a market that’s considerably self-regulating.
“We’re setting what you can almost think of as minimum safety standards just by what we’re putting into the economy,” she mentioned. Corporations “are now building many workflows and day-to-day tooling tasks around AI, and they’re like, ‘Well, we know that this product doesn’t hallucinate as much, it doesn’t produce harmful content, and it doesn’t do all of these bad things.’ Why would you go with a competitor that is going to score lower on that?”
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