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Comment by Dario Amodei

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CEO at Anthropic
I am very concerned about deploying such systems without a better handle on interpretability. These systems will be absolutely central to the economy, technology, and national security, and will be capable of so much autonomy that I consider it basically unacceptable for humanity to be totally ignorant of how they work.
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Require AI systems above a capability threshold to be interpretable

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AI Verified Verified via web search. The quote appears in Dario Amodei's essay "The Urgency of Interpretability" (April 2025) published on darioamodei.com. The original URL returned 403 from WebFetch, but multiple secondary sources (LessWrong, EA Forum, TechCrunch, biocomm.ai blog, LinkedIn) confirm the exact wording. The quote aligns with the statement "Require AI systems above a capability threshold to be interpretable" — Amodei argues it is "basically unacceptable" for humanity to be ignorant of how powerful AI systems work. Year was missing; updated to 2025. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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