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There's so many issues with that Axios article this piece links to. Some really dumb and unchallenged statements from their main source (Amodei), like " 'Cancer is cured, the economy grows at 10% a year, the budget is balanced — and 20% of people don't have jobs.' That's one very possible scenario rattling in his mind as AI power expands exponentially."

Or "OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and other large AI companies keep vastly improving the capabilities of their large language models (LLMs) to meet and beat human performance with more and more tasks. This is happening and accelerating", that last clause being the absolute worse. This is just a more subtle version of the "AI Doomers" who try to hype their AI products by talking about how scary and powerful their LLM data-stealing-and-averaging model is.

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