Saturday Night time Reside took on the AI business’s recent warnings of doom final night time, as solid member Jane Wickline provided her impression of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.
Weekend Replace host Michael Che — who sounded a bit unsure about the way to pronounce Amodei’s final identify — kicked the phase off by describing the CEO as having “stumbled via a press tour” the place he seemingly agreed with a former employee’s claim that artificial intelligence might destroy humanity.
Wickline’s model of Amodei sported a formidable wig and delivered halting solutions that often devolved into full-on Gollum-style exchanges with their darkish facet, at one level confessing, “AI is the satan and I its maker.”
Wickline-as-Amodei assured the audiences that AI executives “are all on the identical web page right here: We don’t condone what we’re doing.”
“AI is just not a weapon, it’s a device: A device for constructing weapons,” she declared. “And I urge you to induce me to cease.”
As for the know-how’s supposed advantages, like potentially curing cancer, the fictional Amodei mentioned, “Put it this manner: In 10 years, there’s a couple of 10% likelihood that most cancers gained’t be an issue for anybody.”
