Anthropic CEO Sets 2027 Goal to Solve AI's Black Box Problem Amid Safety Concerns

Apr 24, 2025
TechCrunch
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Summary

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei announces ambitious 2027 deadline to crack AI's mysterious 'black box' problem, warning against deploying powerful systems that researchers cannot explain while calling for industry-wide safety research and government regulations to prevent an uncontrolled global AI race.

Key Points

  • Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei sets ambitious goal to reliably detect most AI model problems by 2027, expressing concern about deploying powerful systems without understanding how they work
  • Current AI models remain largely mysterious black boxes where researchers cannot explain why systems make specific decisions or why new reasoning models hallucinate more despite better performance
  • Amodei calls for industry-wide interpretability research efforts, government regulations encouraging safety disclosure, and chip export controls to China to prevent an uncontrolled AI race

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