Dario: people who called GPT-2 fears pseudoscience now apply to AI labs
zacharynado · x · 2026-10-28
Dario Amodei recalls being "super freaked out" by GPT-2 in 2019, seeing it as the defining economic and scientific moment that would determine the fate of nations — while 90% of people around him dismissed it. He says those who called his fears "pseudoscience" are now all applying for jobs at AI labs. A viral meme reimagines the skeptics years later asking Anthropic for a job, only to be reminded of their 2019 takes.
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