I sincerely don't understand the surprise at all. AI is perfect for authoritarian regimes. Typically, they are not as efficient as more traditional democracies because they don't allow the markets to function as freely as in democracies, (even though in democracies there's a lot of corruption as well..) But AI can get around that because it replaces a lot of labour and can do things efficiently without the market.
I'd expect AI to be one of the prime weapons of choice of authoritarian regimes in the future, and no amount of regulation can stop it.
The only thing us normal people will ever get out of AI is increased efficiency at the cost of everyone else competing at an increased efficiency level via the prisoner's dilemma. And the people profiting off that series of prisoner's dilemma games will exactly be companies like Anthropic and dictators or quasi-dictators that can use their existing power to leverage the dominating effect of AI.
The most despicable and dark beauty of this scheme is that we will be completely distracted by the overwhelming information and novelty of it.
rvz · 10h ago
> "principles"
No AI company sits forever on their original "principles" when $100B is on the line.
> "This is a real downside and I'm not thrilled about it."
He is beyond thrilled.
It will bring Anthropic closer to true "AGI": (The super-cars, pent-houses, mansions and 10+ new family offices for some early employees.)
Like the PayPal Mafia, we will also get: The Anthropic Mafia or something equivalent.
JohnFen · 8h ago
> No AI company sits forever on their original "principles" when $100B is on the line.
Yup. This is why no genAI company can ever be trusted, no matter how trustworthy they may appear to be.
quantified · 7h ago
AI won't be the last frontier. Other mass-capital-intensive ventures and industries will arise. Those who have massive capital are going to grow it because you need to come to them. Then they can spread whatever ideology they have even better.
I'd expect AI to be one of the prime weapons of choice of authoritarian regimes in the future, and no amount of regulation can stop it.
The only thing us normal people will ever get out of AI is increased efficiency at the cost of everyone else competing at an increased efficiency level via the prisoner's dilemma. And the people profiting off that series of prisoner's dilemma games will exactly be companies like Anthropic and dictators or quasi-dictators that can use their existing power to leverage the dominating effect of AI.
The most despicable and dark beauty of this scheme is that we will be completely distracted by the overwhelming information and novelty of it.
No AI company sits forever on their original "principles" when $100B is on the line.
> "This is a real downside and I'm not thrilled about it."
He is beyond thrilled.
It will bring Anthropic closer to true "AGI": (The super-cars, pent-houses, mansions and 10+ new family offices for some early employees.)
Like the PayPal Mafia, we will also get: The Anthropic Mafia or something equivalent.
Yup. This is why no genAI company can ever be trusted, no matter how trustworthy they may appear to be.