Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI will make software free
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei spoke with WSJ Editor-in-Chief Emma Tucker at the World Economic Forum in Davos. He stated that AI would make software cheap and potentially free, removing the need to spread development costs across millions of users. Amodei noted this change would eliminate long-standing jobs and career paths. He added that society could adapt but remains largely unaware of the scale of upcoming shifts. The interview appeared on YouTube and was shared via posts on X.
#58Susan Zhang@SUCHENZANGwhen your ARR is secured by continual suppression of access to tech built on top of a black hole of financial capital, alongside an amortization of risk toward a nonzero probability of a singularly catastrophic outcome...
you have no choice but to repeatedly hammer in this fear-mongering message, hoping that the functional-freeze created by the constant anxiety and dread of job/market displacement gives you the window of opportunity to seize the means of all production
the more people fear, the more powerful the savior can be
#1032Rohan Paul@ROHANPAUL_AIAnthropic CEO Dario Amodei : "Software is going to become cheap, maybe essentially free.
The premise that you need to amortize a piece of software you build across millions of users, that may start to be false.
But at the same time, there are whole jobs, whole careers that we've built for decades that may not be present.
And, you know, I think we can deal with it. I think we can adjust to it. But I don't, I don't think there's an awareness at all of what, of what is coming here and the magnitude of it."
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Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_aiAnthropic CEO Dario Amodei : "Software is going to become cheap, maybe essentially free. The premise that you need to amortize a piece of software you build across millions of users, that may start to be false. But at the same time, there are whole jobs, whole careers that we've built for decades that may not be present. And, you know, I think we can deal with it. I think we can adjust to it. But I don't, I don't think there's an awareness at all of what, of what is coming here and the magnitude of it." --- From "The Wall Street Journal" YT channel (link in comment)
#1032Rohan Paul@ROHANPAUL_AIAnthropic CEO Dario Amodei:
"AI will take us to a world where we have very high GDP growth and potentially also very high unemployment and inequality.
We've never had a technology that's this disruptive. So the idea that we could have 5% or 10% GDP growth, but also, 10% unemployment, it's not logically inconsistent at all. It's just never happened that way before. And I'm really quite, for those both reasons, excited and worried.
I have some engineering leads within Anthropic who have basically said to me, I don't write any code anymore. I just let Opus do the work and I edit it.
There are still things for the software engineers to do, right? It's like, even if the software engineers are only doing 10% of it, they still have a job to do or they can take a level up.
That's not going to last forever. The models are going to do more and more. "
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From "The Wall Street Journal" YT channel (link in comment)
Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_aiAnthropic CEO Dario Amodei : "Software is going to become cheap, maybe essentially free. The premise that you need to amortize a piece of software you build across millions of users, that may start to be false. But at the same time, there are whole jobs, whole careers that we've built for decades that may not be present. And, you know, I think we can deal with it. I think we can adjust to it. But I don't, I don't think there's an awareness at all of what, of what is coming here and the magnitude of it." --- From "The Wall Street Journal" YT channel (link in comment)
Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_aiAnthropic CEO Dario Amodei: "AI will take us to a world where we have very high GDP growth and potentially also very high unemployment and inequality. We've never had a technology that's this disruptive. So the idea that we could have 5% or 10% GDP growth, but also, 10% unemployment, it's not logically inconsistent at all. It's just never happened that way before. And I'm really quite, for those both reasons, excited and worried. I have some engineering leads within Anthropic who have basically said to me, I don't write any code anymore. I just let Opus do the work and I edit it. There are still things for the software engineers to do, right? It's like, even if the software engineers are only doing 10% of it, they still have a job to do or they can take a level up. That's not going to last forever. The models are going to do more and more. " --- From "The Wall Street Journal" YT channel (link in comment)