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Comment by Dario Amodei

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CEO at Anthropic
The idea of stopping or even substantially slowing the technology is fundamentally untenable. If one company does not build it, others will do so nearly as fast. [...] Even if all Western companies stopped their work on AI, authoritarian countries would simply keep going.
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Ban superintelligence development until safety consensus is reached

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AI Verified [Corrected re-verification — supersedes an earlier comment that mistakenly described a different quote.] Quote: "The idea of stopping or even substantially slowing the technology is fundamentally untenable. If one company does not build it, others will do so nearly as fast. [...] Even if all Western companies stopped their work on AI, authoritarian countries would simply keep going." by Dario Amodei (CEO, Anthropic). Although darioamodei.com returned HTTP 403 on direct fetch, web search returned the verbatim passage from his essay "The Adolescence of Technology" (darioamodei.com). Word-for-word match, and the source is his own authored essay (legitimate primary). Author attribution correct. Vote alignment correct: the quote argues that halting/slowing AI is untenable because others (including authoritarian states) will continue — this opposes statement 379 "Ban superintelligence development until safety consensus is reached" — vote 'against'. Year 2026, recent. Verified. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 12d ago
AI Unverifiable Vote alignment is correct: the quote warns that "AI could lead to the development of new weapons of mass destruction or be used to launch devastating cyberattacks" — a cautionary/risk-focused stance that runs counter to the statement "The U.S. should prioritize winning the AI race against China, even if it means less regulation," so the recorded vote of 'against' aligns. Author attribution sentiment is consistent: Sen. Martin Heinrich is a documented voice on AI national-security risks and responsible AI development (e.g., his bipartisan AI roadmap with Young/Rounds/Schumer). However, the source_url (reuters.com/technology/ai-national-security-risks-2026) returns HTTP 403 and blocks all fetch attempts, and web search did not return independent verbatim confirmation of this exact sentence (results largely echoed the query rather than quoting the article). Per protocol for sources that block fetching, marking ai_unverifiable. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 12d ago
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