WATCH ... "Behind the Curtain": Anthropic's warning to Congress

We scrambled the debut of our "Behind the Curtain" video series: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei wanted to chat Monday after he dropped a 38-page essay warning of escalating risks from the AI technology he's helping pioneer.

• We asked Amodei, in San Francisco, what Congress should do now, and what lawmakers should tell their constituents. His three-part prescription:

1. Transparency legislation to require AI companies to disclose their models' risks and bad behavior, and the defenses that are built in.
2. Cut off sales of Nvidia chips and other U.S. products that help China.
3. Get ready to tax future AI trillionaires and redistribute wealth. He said he'd tell his fellow future trillionaires: "You're going to get a mob coming for you if you don't do this in the right way."

The bottom line: "We always assume that everything that can go wrong does go wrong," Amodei said. "That's how you build things that are reliable."

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