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Anthropic’s CEO thinks AI will lead to a utopia — he just needs a few billion dollars first

Photo illustration of Dario Amodei of Anthropic.
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If you want to raise ungodly amounts of money, you better have some godly reasons.

That’s what Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei laid out for us on Friday in more than 14,000 words: otherworldly ways in which artificial general intelligence (AGI, though he prefers to call it “powerful AI”) will change our lives. 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. At the same time, it’s reported that Anthropic is hoping to raise fresh funds at a $40 billion valuation.

Today’s AI can do exactly none of what Amodei imagines. It will take, by his own admission, h…

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