Ro Khanna
Role at the time: U.S. Representative for California's 17th congressional district, posting on his verified X account
Condemned
Statement summary
Responding to Dario Amodei's announcement of his essay on pacing frontier AI development and Anthropic's commitment to give third-party evaluators permanent employee-level access, Rep. Ro Khanna said the proposal does not go nearly far enough. He called for pausing recursive self-improving AI and for criminal and civil liability for AI that causes damage, said technology executives use opaque jargon to keep the public in the dark, and asked Amodei to state his probability-of-doom estimate. His characterisation of industry leaders is his own.
“The tech lords act like priests who know Latin & keep the rest of us in the dark. Get beyond the opaque jargon and its pretty straightforward. Amodei doesn't go nearly far enough. We must pause recursive self improving AI. We must have criminal and civil liability for AI that damages us. What is your P(doom), probability of doom, number Dario?”