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Amodei explains that his decision to leave OpenAI was not due to disagreements over commercialization or the Microsoft deal, as has been rumored. Rather, it was about having a clear vision for how to responsibly develop and deploy powerful AI systems in a way that builds trust with the public and the research community.
"If you have a vision for how to do it, you should go off and you should do that vision. It is incredibly unproductive to try and argue with someone else's vision."
Amodei sees Anthropic as a "clean experiment" in putting this vision into practice. He acknowledges that Anthropic, like any organization, is imperfect, but believes that striving for better practices, even imperfectly, is better than giving up. The goal is to create a "race to the top" where companies compete to adopt the best safety and transparency practices, rather than a "race to the bottom" that could lead to catastrophic outcomes.
The Importance of a Race to the Top
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