Dario Amodei's 2016 AI safety paper resurfaces: thinking about safety pre-Transformer
bookwormengr · x · 2026-10-07
A resurfaced 2016 paper on AI safety by Dario Amodei, now Anthropic's CEO, shows he was seriously thinking about AI safety before Transformer models even existed.
The paper illustrates Amodei's long-running focus on safety — a decade of systematic thinking before entering the frontier lab world — and helps explain why Anthropic was later founded around a safety-first mission.
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