Dario Amodei

Frontier AI models, like airplanes, should be required to go through technical testing and auditing, and their release should be blocked or reversed as a threat to public safety if they do not meet high standards of safety.

[...] the idea of stopping or even substantially slowing [...] is fundamentally untenable. If one company does not build it [...] authoritarian countries would simply keep going.

We don't know if the models are conscious. We are not even sure that we know what it would mean for a model to be conscious or whether a model can be conscious. [...] But we're open to the idea that it could be.

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 basic...

It’s very frightening. [...] an AI system that doesn’t take over the world, that doesn’t destroy humanity, then [...] follow basic human laws.