Dario is too bullish on timelines but more prescient than almost anyone
ben_j_todd · x · 2026-09-13
Responding to criticism that Dario Amodei wrongly predicted 20% unemployment by this past May, @benjtodd argues Amodei has indeed been consistently too bullish on timelines, yet remains more prescient than almost anyone — he was among the first to identify scaling laws, which is why he now runs a trillion-dollar AI company.
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