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SNL Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.'S Threat to Humanity [video]

149 pointsby 1h agoyoutube.com
35 comments
1h agoHN ↗

I for one am glad to see society moving from deference to skepticism of these valley elite

1h agoHN ↗

lol, that's good

Lawfare Media recently, actually proposed a mutualize insurance system for Ai

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/bootstrapping-frontier-...

I don't think it such a bad idea that the Big Ai labs put money into a fund for their negligence, but that should not relieve them of criminal liabilities

my consternation is that they likely have sufficient money to avoid consequences, like the sacks and the opioid epidemic, two-tier justice system at it's finest...

1h agoHN ↗

An insurance policy with a robot plan? Certainly, I’m too old!

1h agoHN ↗

Does it apply when robo-advisors make bad investments?

51m agoHN ↗

In reality, it is a big scam to trick the public into thinking AI is dangerous and needs to be regulated. Then the government can limit it so only the preferred companies can continue to develop it.

It's because both frontier companies are worried about plateauing and there's no barrier to competition. They both have upcoming IPOs, too.

9m agoHN ↗

To be fair, I think most of this is sci-fi brain rot, but the fact that 2 trillion-dollar companies supposedly have RSI as their #1 priority by a long shot is concerning to me

1h agoHN ↗

How long until the President of the United States threatens to pull licenses for NBC over their anti-AI viewpoint?

1h agoHN ↗

it’s alright, they’re making fun of the “security risk” Anthropic’s CEO, not their darling Altman

1h agoHN ↗

The uploader has not made this video available in your country

Copyright is another threat to humanity.

33m agoHN ↗

It's so stupid, like why would they block it on YouTube, but not on instagram. Is the copyright law only applicable in YouTube

1h agoHN ↗

Copyright might be part of this; I haven’t thought that through. But this restriction is about whose turf they’re trying to push their product on. SNL has to be pushed through a different distributor in different regions.

56m agoHN ↗

This is the best thing Jane Wickline has done. I worried about whether she was on the bubble because she's so situational (I think that's a good thing), but clearly she's got staying power.

36m agoHN ↗

i just learned her partner is named Henry Hornbuckle now this is power couple we deserve but not the one we need right now

49m agoHN ↗

I generally don't think SNL is very funny but I think it's quite socially healthy that they make fun of the political and economic elites. I wonder if we mapped out their targets if there would be any glaring omissions that would stand out.

This video didn't make me laugh but I appreciate the flexing of the first amendment. They should continue with other AI-related figures.

35m agoHN ↗

I disagree there are so many other ways to be funny than making fun of someone's stuttering. We shouldn't be bullying people delivering trillions of dollars of value to society.

21m agoHN ↗

the idea of a caricature is to exaggerate the features someone is most insecure about. That's what Spitting Image is.

20m agoHN ↗

That is literally bullying. especially when those insecurities are something that can not be fixed. You can't excuse bullying because "it's for humor." It's cruel.

3m agoHN ↗

You can't bully someone so much more powerful. Bullying is saying AI will replace devs, 10% chance of everybody dying, etc.

34m agoHN ↗

Agreed. I wish they would have thrown in a "guardrails to stop me, but mostly my competitors" so the public would think about that possibility more.

36m agoHN ↗

When Dario talks to himself sotto voce and then answers himself in a raspy voice, Gollum-like, made me lose it. I once encountered a severely cognitively deficient individual on the bus who calmed himself in the exact same fashion. It's almost a perfectly succinct psychological snapshot of the character they're trying to create.

30m agoHN ↗

Is this supposed to be funny?

Hard to comprehend how we've gone from Norm MacDonald being so relentlessly bold he was fired, to this sterility, in 30 years.

22m agoHN ↗

I urge you to urge me to stop is critical Super Dario

15m agoHN ↗

It’s not funny. It could be, Dario is idiosyncratic enough they could have done a really good send up of him, this just wasn’t it.

9m agoHN ↗

To be honest I struggle to understand why SNL endures. It has never been funny with very very few exceptions.

11m agoHN ↗

I know it’s a little OT, but I keep seeing the same misquotation all over the place. Right at the beginning Michael Che refers to the claim that “there’s a 10% chance that AI could wipe out humanity within 10 years.”

But that isn’t what the often-misquoted current and former Anthropic employees said. They said it was a 10% chance of it happening by the end of the current decade [0], i.e. by 2030, not 2036.

0: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/09/anthropic...

10m agoHN ↗

But what does it matter? It’s not like that number is based on any science. It’s literally p (doom | vibes).

6m agoHN ↗

what does the scientific literature say then?

5m agoHN ↗

You are wrong. The confusion arises because Coxon said “within the decade” with no associated probability and Hubinger said “within the next decade” at 10%.

4m agoHN ↗

Hey how about we go back to LLM/AI being a simple knowledge request service? You have a model trained on data, you request a text or media response from that knowledge model.

No agents. And if someone loops the response into an agent, well, then they are legally liable for personally doing that.