We could have this very unusual combination of very fast GDP growth and high unemployment — or at least underemployment, a lot of low-wage jobs, high… - Dario Amodei

I believe deeply in the existential importance of using AI to defend the United States and other democracies, and to defeat our autocratic adversaries.

The figure I most identified with was Leo Szilard, who was the one who first had the idea that there could be a chain reaction. My view is we're not going to get through this with larger-than-life personalities, or figures who try to be at the center of everything. In some ways I actually see Oppenheimer as a failure case — as what should not happen. There are a lot of powerful actors who have interests here, and the only way it's going to end well for everyone is if there are checks and balances everywhere.

I would guess that the software industry gets not smaller, although there will be some big losers — those who don't see what's coming, who don't identify the moats they have.