Anthropic’s Dario Amodei gets the SNL treatment

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Saturday Night Live took connected the AI industry’s recent warnings of doom past night, arsenic formed subordinate Jane Wickline offered her content of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.

Weekend Update big Michael Che — who sounded a small uncertain astir however to pronounce Amodei’s past sanction — kicked the conception disconnected by describing the CEO arsenic having “stumbled done a property tour” wherever helium seemingly agreed with a erstwhile employee’s assertion that artificial quality mightiness destruct humanity.

Wickline’s mentation of Amodei sported an awesome wig and delivered halting answers that occasionally devolved into full-on Gollum-style exchanges with their acheronian side, astatine 1 constituent confessing, “AI is the devil and I its maker.”

Wickline-as-Amodei assured the audiences that AI executives “are each connected the aforesaid leafage here: We bash not condone what we are doing.”

“AI is not a weapon, it’s a tool: A instrumentality for gathering weapons,” she declared. “And I impulse you to impulse maine to stop.”

As for the technology’s expected benefits, similar potentially curing cancer, the fictional Amodei said, “Put it this way: In 10 years, there’s astir a 10% accidental that crab won’t beryllium a occupation for anyone.”

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