Jared Kaplan is in the middle of an ideological battle over the future of AI

There was a time when Anthropic co-founder Jared Kaplan wasn’t sold on artificial intelligence. It was early 2010 and his friends (now colleagues) Dario Amodei and Chris Olah were excited about the potential.

Kaplan, a theoretical physicist, was skeptical until he saw AlphaGo, a program developed by Google to master the ancient board game Go.

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