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This episode was recorded at the 2025 DealBook Summit. This year's Dealbook Summit sponsors include premier sponsor Accenture, associate sponsors U.S. bank Vanguard Invesco, QQQ and University of Michigan, supporting sponsor Capital One and contributing sponsor Invest Puerto Rico.
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I think there's a real dilemma deriving from uncertainty in how quickly the economic value is going to grow and the lag times on building the data. And then I think there are some players who, you know, who are YOLOing, and I'm very concerned.
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Who is YOLOing?
A (0:38)
So that's a question I'm not going to answer.
B (0:44)
This is Andrew Oz Sorkin with the New York Times, and you're listening to interviews from our annual Dealbook Summit recorded on December 3rd in New York City.
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Good afternoon, everybody. I hope you guys all had a great lunch. We have a huge afternoon, starting with Jerry Amodei here. He is one of the most consequential people here in the world of artificial intelligence. He's the co founder and CEO of Anthropic, of course, known for its Claude model. It's one of the fastest growing technology companies in history and uniquely backed now by all three giants, tech giants Amazon, Microsoft and Google. That's new, at least one of them. And by the way, he has been at this really longer than most. He worked at Baidu, then Google, was an early employee at OpenAI, where he led the development of ChatGPT 2 and 3. And the reason that we wanted to speak with him this year more than anything else is because he has singularly been perhaps the most outspoken and candid person about AI when it comes to the way he's been thinking about jobs and job losses and selling chips to China and politics on our country and where all of this goes. So welcome to you. Thank you for being here.
A (1:57)
Thank you for having me.
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We got a lot to talk about, including, by the way, are we in an AI bubble? But I promise you we will get there. I'll start here though, which is I mentioned you were a research scientist back at Baidu 2014. And if I had sat with you then and said we're going to sit together in 2025 talking about AI, you would have told me what, what would have been your expectation for what would have happened.
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So I'll tell you what I am surprised by and what I'm not. I'm not surprised by the economic impacts of the technology, the value that it's creating. You know, the fact that, you know, I walk by any billboard in New York and, you know, it's it's, it's.
