Dario Amodei says Anthropic has made many mistakes in race to the top, will do better

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has defended the company’s approach to AI safety after several people raised concerns about its recently proposed AI safety bill. A few days ago, Anthropic proposed a federal AI safety bill and reportedly shared a draft with US lawmakers. Soon after the news became public, it drew a fierce reaction from civil society groups, tech policy watchdogs and lawmakers. Among the many objections, one concerns the threshold for government intervention, which requires 50 deaths or $1 billion in damages before regulators can act. Critics argue this threshold is far too high. Nathan Calvin, chief strategy officer at AI policy and safety advocacy group Encode AI raised concerns on X, formerly known as Twitter, questioning whether the company was putting its ambition to build increasingly powerful AI…

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