My take on Anthropic CEO's thoughts: The ideological lens is almost the worst

5 points by basicthinker 10 hours ago

Background: https://darioamodei.com/on-deepseek-and-export-controls

A lot of discussion about the AI competitive dynamics between the US and China: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42866905.

But isn’t the real threat to a bright human future with AI the ideological lens that Dario Amodei has imposed on AI competition?

Let’s examine the spectrum:

1. Viewing AI competition as a corporate rivalry echoes free-market globalization.

2. Viewing AI competition through open vs. closed innovation preserves hope for collaborative progress.

3. Viewing AI competition as a national priority invokes patriotism or nationalism, which is at least better than anarchism.

4. Viewing AI competition as an ideological struggle mirrors a Cold War mindset, hopefully not hot.

5. Viewing AI competition as a religious battle invites extremism.

It is a pity that one of today’s leading AI powers is steered by a CEO who stands at 4/5, seemingly blind to humanity’s blood-stained lessons on ideological strife.