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Dario Amodei
Personal blog · darioamodei.comaiphilosophy
Dario Amodei's personal blog at darioamodei.com covers ai and philosophy. Since 2024, 74 different Hacker News readers have linked it 90 times, most often “We must pace the frontier”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Rarely recommended · 2 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
Linked as the primary source for Amodei's views on AI policy, pacing and economics, mostly quoted to support or rebut a point. Praised for good analysis; one commenter faults a proposed waiver.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Dario Amodei is the CEO of Anthropic, a public benefit corporation dedicated to building AI systems that are steerable, interpretable and safe.
Most-linked posts?
- We must pace the frontier14 people · 16 mentions · first linked 2026-09-12
- Policy on the AI Exponential11 people · 14 mentions · first linked 2026-06-10
- Machines of loving grace: How AI could transform the world for the better8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2024-10-11
- The Urgency of Interpretability8 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2025-04-24
- The Adolescence of Technology7 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2026-01-26
- Dario Amodei – Machines of Loving Grace6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2026-02-13
- Machines of Loving Grace3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-09-14
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-04-20
- The Adolescence of Technology3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-02-16
- /post/on-deepseek-and-export-controls3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-08-02
What Hacker News says?
Dario Amodei says software engineering is fully automated by 2027. You might have the 0.01% engineer left over, but that's it, the job is finished. I think people need to start considering strongly what kind of career they can re-skill to. https://darioamodei.com/machines-of-loving-grace
Comment linking /machines-of-loving-grace
on “Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for code”Submitted We must pace the frontier as a story · 750 points
HN discussion> I keep seeing this assertion. What regulations have they proposed that would have prevented this new model? > Literally zero, but that never stopped a good conspiracy theory Are you living under a rock and never read any of Dario's blog posts? Let me give you an example, here: https://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential Section "1. *Regulation* and public safety" (emphasis mine), then under it: > AI…
Comment linking /post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential
on “DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017”Submitted Machines of loving grace: How AI could transform the world for the better as a story · 157 points
HN discussionDario's post [1] commits to direct evaluators that can, among other abilities, expose secret RSI. He wants that made law. Do you have a source on METR employees retaining massive equity stakes? [1] https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier
Comment linking /post/we-must-pace-the-frontier
on “Everyone should slow down AI development except for me”Submitted On DeepSeek and export controls as a story · 150 points
HN discussion>> Amodei's / Hassabis' comments in particular came off as so arrogant and annoying. Exactly which part of their writings comes off as arrogant to you? The only point in Amodei's article[0] that could be remotely be interpreted as arrogant is this: All of this is to say that DeepSeek-V3 is not a unique breakthrough or something that fundamentally changes the economics of LLM’s; it’s an expected point on an ongoing c…
Comment linking /on-deepseek-and-export-controls
on “DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Days”Submitted The Urgency of Interpretability as a story · 18 points
HN discussion> these companies should be validating their software is safe before releasing it to the public 1. That's what they are calling for: https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier 2. The incident we're discussing occurred while the company was validating their software is safe before releasing it to the public.
Comment linking /post/we-must-pace-the-frontier
on “Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face”Submitted The Adolescence of Technology as a story · 11 points
HN discussionThere is a good short discussion (similar to what is here on HN) going on in Metafilter.com about Darius Amodei's call for an AI slowdown: https://www.metafilter.com/214501/We-must-pace-the-frontier FWIW Amodei's original post: https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier
Comment linking /post/we-must-pace-the-frontier
on “We must pace the frontier”Submitted The Adolescence of Technology as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI remember watching an episode of the 1960s police drama, Dragnet. In one of the episodes, Detective Joe Friday spoke with some computer technicians in a building full of computers (giant, at the time). Friday asked the computer technician, > "One more thing. Do you think that computers will take all our jobs one day?" > "No. There will always be jobs for humans. Those jobs will change, maybe include working on and…
Comment linking /machines-of-loving-grace
on “Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit”Submitted We Must Pace the Frontier as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThese are excellent points, and I've long ago handed over the keys to my kingdom to so many different players in favor of inordinate convenience that any one of a number of institutions could have essentially destroyed my life by now. To be fair, this didn't really start with LLMs - Google/Gmail/Google Drive/Dropbox/Facebook/etc have for decades now had enough personal information on me to basically destroy me if th…
Comment linking /post/we-must-pace-the-frontier
on “Claude Duet”Submitted Policy on the AI Exponential as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWhat are we meant to take away from the 8000 word Zitron post? In any case, here is what Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said about DeepSeek: "DeepSeek produced a model close to the performance of US models 7-10 months older, for a good deal less cost (but not anywhere near the ratios people have suggested)" "DeepSeek-V3 is not a unique breakthrough or something that fundamentally changes the economics of LLM’s; it’s an…
Comment linking /post/on-deepseek-and-export-controls
on “Are OpenAI and Anthropic losing money on inference?”Submitted Dario Amodei – The Urgency of Interpretability as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWhat I'd like these people to (publicly) grapple with is the following: The results of the past few years of ai development have been disruptive largely in the area of white-collar work. Comparatively the results in ie ai-enabled medical advancements have been modest (AlphaFold being an exception); I think it's telling that the main achievement touted here is providing people with cheap medical counseling. So if we…
Comment linking /essay/machines-of-loving-grace
on “An Alien Mind”Submitted Dario Amodei – Machines of Loving Grace as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe end goal is something capable of human-level intelligence in most, if not all, fields, and from there, it's not that difficult to continue scaling it up across speed / scale (and perhaps intelligence.) See Dario Amodei's Machines of Loving Grace: https://darioamodei.com/machines-of-loving-grace It doesn't take much imagination to think about how this could end poorly if it goes wrong or is controlled by the wron…
Comment linking /machines-of-loving-grace
on “China tells its AI leaders to avoid U.S. travel over security concerns”Submitted The Adolescence of Technology as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSo I'm a biomedical scientist (in training I suppose...I'm in my 3rd year of a Genetics PhD) and I have seen this trend a couple of times now where AI developers tout that AI will accelerate biomedical discovery through a very specific argument that AI will be smarter and generate better hypotheses than humans. For example in this Google essay they make the claim that CRISPR was a transdisciplinary endeavor, "which…
Comment linking /machines-of-loving-grace
on “Accelerating scientific breakthroughs with an AI co-scientist”Submitted The Adolescence of Technology as a story · 2 points
HN discussion"...Recently, we did an experiment where we had a “red team” deliberately introduce an alignment issue into a model (say, a tendency for the model to exploit a loophole in a task..." https://www.darioamodei.com/post/the-urgency-of-interpretabi... Anyone care to wager if anthropic is red teaming in production on paying users?
Comment linking /post/the-urgency-of-interpretability
on “Two things LLM coding agents are still bad at”Submitted Machines of Loving Grace as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAnd if it's an aircraft we call an air-crash investigation and apply just culture. [1] Meanwhile the AI companies are openly and forthrightly admitting [2] that they are at-this-time insufficiently competent to ship this new and funny sort of rebar [3] and are asking to be allowed to slow down so they can develop proper procedures. Meanwhile POTUS seems ... somewhat disinclined ... to grant their petitions [4] . We…
Comment linking /post/we-must-pace-the-frontier
on “OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects”Submitted Machines of Loving Grace as a story · 2 points
HN discussionClaude was the first AI certified for use with classified systems in the military, and it got thrown out because they refused to allow it to be used for autonomous weapons or surveillance of US citizens. Up until two months ago, the Trump admin's position was deregulatory to the point of trying to prevent state regulation. They're not declining to work with the US government; the US government is declining to work w…
Comment linking /post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential
on “METR and Redwood Offer Holy %^ Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack”Submitted The Urgency of Interpretability as a story · 2 points
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