It matters which story you tell about the future of artificial intelligence. Is AI just a tool for humans to use, like any other software? Is it a malignant force acting to destroy creativity? Will it create robots bent on destruction? Or will it make the world incredible, beautiful, equal, perfect in ways we can’t even begin to imagine?
This will shock you, but some of the men running the biggest companies in AI think it’s the latter. Both OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei have recently written blog posts — Altman’s short and pithy, Amodei’s long and thorough — about the AI-powered world they hope to help create. These are powerful men with huge teams and vast resources at their disposal; it matters a lot what they…