Dario Amodei, the CEO and co-founder of Anthropic, recently discussed AI and its global impact with Nikhil Kamath, the co-founder of Zerodha.
Highlighted India’s position in the growing AI sector on the ‘People by WTF’ podcast, the tech leader responded to questions on whether AI would reduce cognitive abilities and make humans “stupider”.
Nikhil Kamath shared on YouTube, “I sat down with Dario Amodei in Bangalore. He built Claude, but he started as a biologist looking for a tool to cure disease. Today, he's at the helm of an AI revolution that he compares to a tsunami society is actively ignoring. We got into the heavy stuff: why Anthropic secretly withheld a working model before ChatGPT existed, whether AI is on the verge of consciousness, and if outsourcing our thinking is going to make humans measurably stupider. Dario makes the case that coding is a dying skill, critical thinking is our last real edge, and the absurd concentration of power in AI right now is a massive problem, even though he’s one of the people holding it.”
Could AI make humans less intelligent?
During the interview, the Zerodha co-founder asked Amodei, “Do you think humans will become stupider as a race in the next decade?” He continues, “Coz.. if a way we are exporting thinking and cognition to systems.”
Amodei replies, “Yeah… I think if we deploy AI in the wrong way, if we deploy it carelessly, then, yes, people could become stupider.”
“Even if an AI is always gonna be better than you at something you can still learn that thing, right? You can still enrich yourself intellectually,” he added.
According to Amodei, humans must decide as individuals, as organisations, and as a society.
When Kamath asked about skills people should focus on today, start-ups or higher studies, the tech leader responded, “I would think about tasks that are human-centric.”
“What industry would I pick outside of something which has a physical interface?” Kamath asked. “Anything you are building on AI.” He also mentions that anything in the semiconductor space will be helpful,” Amodei said.
Who is Dario Amodei?
Dario Amodei, now co-founder of Anthropic, previously served as Vice President of Research under Sam Altman’s OpenAI. Dario earned his doctorate in biophysics from Princeton University as a Hertz Fellow and conducted postdoctoral research at Stanford University School of Medicine.
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