Hugging Face co-founder Thomas Wolf just challenged Anthropic CEO’s vision for AI’s future — and the $130 billion industry is taking notice

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Thomas Wolf, cofounder of AI company Hugging Face, has issued a stark challenge to the tech industry’s most optimistic visions of artificial intelligence, arguing that today’s AI systems are fundamentally incapable of delivering the scientific revolutions their creators promise. In a provocative blog post published on his personal website this morning, Wolf directly confronts the widely circulated vision of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, who predicted that advanced AI would deliver a “compressed 21st century” where decades of scientific progress could unfold in just years. “I’m afraid AI won’t give us a ‘compressed 21st century,'” Wolf writes in his post, arguing that current AI systems are more likely to produce “a country of yes-men on servers” rather than the “country of geniuses” that Amodei envisions. The exchange highlights a growing divide in how AI lea ... Read full article.