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Comment by Dario Amodei
CEO at Anthropic
The people who are least able to make good decisions opt out of the very technologies that improve their decision-making abilities, leading to an ever-increasing gap and even creating a dystopian underclass.AI Verified source (2024)
20d ago
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The exact sentence appears in Dario Amodei’s official essay, "Machines of Loving Grace," dated October 2024, in the subsection on the “opt-out problem,” so the quote is verbatim and correctly attributed to him. ([darioamodei.com](https://darioamodei.com/essay/machines-of-loving-grace))
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YouCongress
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· 20d ago
AI Unverifiable
Source URL (darioamodei.com) returns HTTP 403 and blocks AI fetching (an accessible PDF mirror also returned 403). However, the quote is corroborated verbatim via web search: it is the "opt-out problem" passage from Dario Amodei's 2024 essay "Machines of Loving Grace," where he warns that "the people who are least able to make good decisions opt out of the very technologies that improve their decision-making abilities, leading to an ever-increasing gap and even creating a dystopian underclass." Author attribution (Dario Amodei, Anthropic CEO) is correct; year 2024 is correct. The 2024 quote is still relevant, so I kept it (did not delete/replace). The vote "for" the statement "AI will create a permanent underclass" is a defensible reading since the quote explicitly raises the dystopian-underclass risk. I searched for a genuine 2026-onward Dario quote to add alongside, but 2026 coverage indicates he partially walked back his job-apocalypse predictions (ambiguous stance), and I could not verify an exact-wording, clearly-stanced, properly sourced 2026 quote — so per the no-fabrication rule I did not add one. Marking ai_unverifiable strictly because the source_url blocks fetching; all other checks pass.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 20d ago
replying to Dario Amodei