I think it's phrased just fine. It's not up to Dario to try to make absolute statements about the future.

How about the present and his personal beliefs?

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

This reads like his objection is not on "autocratic", but on "adversaries". Autocratic friends & family are cool with him. A clear wink to a certain administration with autocratic tendencies.

	▲	anjellow 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Some people can’t help themselves to read this like a Ouija board.
	▲	jacquesm an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		That all works right up until the United States becomes autocratic and that process is well underway. So yes, the second part of your comment is what is going to come back to haunt them. The road to hell is paved with the best intentions.
	▲	estearum 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Western liberal ideals are better than the opposite. It is misanthropic to build autocratic societies.

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taurath 15 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> It's not up to Dario to try to make absolute statements about the future.

Thats insane to say, given that he's literally acting in the public sphere as the mouth of Sauron for how AI will grow so effective as to destroy almost everyone's jobs and AGI will take over our society and kill us all.

	▲	nubg 3 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		All I'm trying to say is that nobody can predict the future, and therefore saying statements pretending something will be a certain way forever is just silly. It's OK for him to add this qualifier.

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andrewljohnson 39 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This doesn’t read to me like it was personally written by one person. It’s not Dario we should read this as being written by, it’s Anthropic as an entity.

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nhinck2 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

He does it all the time.

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camillomiller 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And yet he’s quite happy to make just that when it’s meant to drum you up his own product for investors

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trvz 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

He’s one of the most influential people when it comes to what future we’ll have. Yes, it’s up to him.

	▲	ternwer 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think he's more pragmatic than that.