Comment by Avicebron
8 hours ago
> “I think it is fundamentally a crisis of trust,” Amodei said. “I think that ordinary people don’t trust companies, governments, or the tech industry and always suspect that we are cooking up some new way to screw them over.”
The easiest way to fix this is to improve the quality of life of people in the US. How about spending every waking moment talking about how Anthropic is championing universal healthcare in the US or reducing income inequality in ways that show up in people's bank accounts. The closer that Dario's net worth is to the average Joe's, the more benefit of the doubt AI would get.
while this : "The easiest way to fix this is to improve the quality of life of people in the US." sounds good. I think the practical challenge will be attribution. If the application of AI across society does result in the improvement of the quality of life across people in the US (and other countries) how will people realistically attribute it to AI and therefore reduce the AI trust crisis?
I think the answer is: people have to help improve their own lives, and when AI can help them do that legitimately, then I think they will.
The issue is rebuilding the trust people have with the companies, not trust they have with AI as a technology.
"People have to help improve their own lives" is the kind of blame shifting/bootstrap rhetoric that makes people not trust people who say that kind of thing. Especially when the people saying it are themselves growing unimaginably wealthy.