Dario Amodei

The key challenge in such a world won’t be incentivizing growth, but finding a way for everyone to share in the benefits.

Mechanisms such as universal basic income could be financed through taxes on relevant companies or raising the capital gains tax.

But at the same time we should recognize that there’s a decent possibility that, despite all our efforts, AI still causes significant enduring job loss—and that this may be an intrinsic property of the technology and the way it broadly replicates hum...

If AI-driven labor displacement ends up being large in magnitude and permanently drives down the demand for labor, it will likely be necessary to go beyond mere incentive programs to long-term income support for a significant fraction of the labor fo...

It is not clear where these people will go or what they will do, and I am concerned that they could form an unemployed or very-low-wage “underclass.”

The thing to worry about is a level of wealth concentration that will break society.

There is a need for governments to use their much greater resources to do similar measurement and monitoring—and eventually to enact policy focused on ensuring that everyone shares in the economic benefits of very powerful AI.

I don’t know exactly when it’ll come, I don’t know if it’ll be 2027. I think it’s plausible it could be longer than that. I don’t think it will be a whole bunch longer than that when AI systems are better than humans at almost everything. Better than...