{"id":141651,"date":"2025-12-04T07:57:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141651"},"modified":"2025-12-04T06:20:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T11:20:45","slug":"guardian-anthropics-chief-scientist-jared-kaplan-says-ai-autonomy-could-spark-a-beneficial-intelligence-explosion-or-be-the-moment-humans-lose-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141651","title":{"rendered":"(Guardian) Anthropic\u2019s chief scientist Jared Kaplan \u00a0says AI autonomy could spark a beneficial \u2018intelligence explosion\u2019 \u2013 or be the moment humans lose control"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jared Kaplan, the chief scientist and co-owner of the $180bn (\u00a3135bn) US startup Anthropic, said a choice was looming about how much autonomy the systems should be given to evolve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The move could trigger a beneficial \u201cintelligence explosion\u201d \u2013 or be the moment humans end up losing control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an interview about the intensely competitive race to reach artificial general intelligence (AGI) \u2013 sometimes called superintelligence \u2013 Kaplan urged international governments and society to engage in what he called \u201cthe biggest decision\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anthropic is part of a pack of frontier AI companies including OpenAI, Google DeepMind, xAI, Meta and Chinese rivals led by DeepSeek, racing for AI dominance. Its widely used AI assistant, Claude, has become particularly popular among business customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaplan said that while efforts to align the rapidly advancing technology to human interests had to date been successful, freeing it to recursively self-improve \u201cis in some ways the ultimate risk, because it\u2019s kind of like letting AI kind of go\u201d. The decision could come between 2027 and 2030, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2025\/dec\/02\/jared-kaplan-artificial-intelligence-train-itself\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AI systems will be capable of doing \u201cmost white-collar work\u201d in two to three years: Anthropic\u2019s chief scientist <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CciDRlxTDH\">https:\/\/t.co\/CciDRlxTDH<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Lisa Abramowicz (@lisaabramowicz1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisaabramowicz1\/status\/1996166219938894018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jared Kaplan, the chief scientist and co-owner of the $180bn (\u00a3135bn) US startup Anthropic, said a choice was looming about how much autonomy the systems should be given to evolve. The move could trigger a beneficial \u201cintelligence explosion\u201d \u2013 or<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=141651\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,175,133,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-anthropology","category-history","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141651"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141654,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141651\/revisions\/141654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}