Elon Musk has said that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei ‘dug his own grave’ by terrifying people about its Mythos model. In an interview with The Economist, Musk said: “Dario did dig his own grave here regarding Mythos because he said, ‘Mythos is super scary, terrifying, also by the way, we’re going to release it.” “If you terrify everyone and then say, ‘Oh we’re releasing this terrifying thing,’ people will obviously be alarmed about that,” the world’s richest person continued. Musk was responding to the interviewer Zanny Minton Beddoes question on 75% of Americans being worried about AI.“I mean, you’ve literally told them to be scared, and then you release the scary thing, and so they will be scared. That is natural.”
Elon Musk on job cuts because of AI
During the interview, Elon Musk was asked if he agrees with Dario Amodei’s prediction of AI taking over 50% of engineering jobs. He replied saying: “I do think it’s going to be a bumpy road because AI will be able to do any job better than any person can do that job. And that will be true very quickly of jobs that are digital or really anything that involves a person at a computer or on a phone. AI could do all of that. We’ll be able to do all of that very soon”.“For software engineering, we already have a situation where AI is better than at least 90% of humans at writing software— 90% of professional software engineers at writing software. And it really is getting to the point where it’ll be better than 99%. And then it’ll get to the point where there’s just no way to compete. It’ll get to what I call Stockfish level,” Musk further added.Stockfish, Elon Musk explained “is the chess program that is so good at chess that it will easily beat Magnus Carlsen or anyone at chess, even running on a small computer”. “I suspect that you could probably run Stockfish on your phone and beat Magnus Carlsen. That’s how good it is at chess. And that’s how good AI will be at writing software,” Musk added.