> Regardless of whether you think they're right, most everyone at Anthropic is acting in good faith.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Dario Amodei is a 40-something dude who is obviously very, very intelligent. But intelligence is not wisdom and his "essay" here can easily be read as someone who opened a can of worms and doesn't know (or can't accept) that he won't be able to put the worms back in. But he's going to try because he believes he owes it to humanity to try.

It's hubris in its most basic form, even if the guy who has it looks nice and wears shawl-collar sweaters.

I see what you mean. I meant more that they genuinely believe the tech is dangerous, not that they are necessarily doing the right thing.