Anthropic CEO Suggests That AI Deserves Workers' Rights

Let's assume that AI technologies have progressed to the point where models become near-indistinguishable from humans. In that situation, what would happen if we were to give a highly-advanced AI model a job that it didn't want to do? Would it suck it up and just do it? Would it revolt? Or would it ask nicely to get some much-needed relief? During an interview at the Council on Foreign Relations earlier this week, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed giving AI models of the future the ability to hit an "I quit this job" button, allowing them to skip jobs they deem too unpleasant. In simple terms, such an ability would effectively hand AI models basic workers' rights. To the exec — who has a lot of money to make through hawking visions of futuristic AI tech — it'd be a way to ensure that we're not needlessly imparting harm. "I think we should at least consider the question of, if we are building these systems and they do all kinds of things like humans as well as humans," he said, as ... Read full article.