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SNL Skewers Anthropic CEO: ‘I Urge You to Urge Me to Stop’
If AI executives and employees really think artificial intelligence has a chance to kill us all, why are they still trying to make AI more powerful?
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Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update skit featured Jane Wickline as a nervous Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, who references a recent interview with Anderson Cooper in which he refuses to say AI will not destroy humanity. The sketch mocks the idea that AI leaders believe the technology could kill us yet still push it forward. Amodei’s own essay, “We Must Pace the Frontier,” published amid growing doomsday talk, urges tech companies to slow AI development. The skit satirizes the tension between the perceived danger of AI and the continued drive to make it more powerful.
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